Possible Clues:

• Father might possess this cross, by the look of it
• What could possess the Father to show 25 down like this?
• Make head lines
• Show disapproval, in a way
• What a left parenthesis suggests in an emoticon
• Father to confess and make headlines
• Priest to have gloomy expression
• Admit being kept under by father displaying severe expression
• Look cranky
• Look cross