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DOYLE, Fr. Thomas; SIPE, A.W. Richard; and WALL, Patrick; 2006, Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse.
[Picture] Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes book cover
UNITED STATES: Since exposure of clerical sex abuse reached critical mass in 2002, Catholic leaders have sometimes defended their mishandling of the problem by claiming insufficient knowledge. Publicly, some bishops said they didn't understand that pedophilia is incurable; thus the attempts to "rehabilitate" abusive clerics, then shift them from assignment to assignment.
The book asks, "What did [the Catholic hierarchy] know, and when did they know it?" The answer, the authors emphatically proclaim, is "in a nutshell … all about it and all along." [...]
In fact, from that 12th-century period when church doctrine began to be codified into canon law, the authors find specific references regarding the abuse of young boys, a practice known by the telling Latin term stuprum. (Put stuprum into its verb form and you get the more familiar infinitive “to stup.”)
Perhaps of greater value is the book’s explication of how canon law encourages -- and even requires -- church leaders to engage in secrecy so as to prevent scandal. If a bishop suspects a cleric has committed sexual abuse, for instance, canon law requires the bishop to conduct an investigation (or delegate the investigation) and then place the results into a secret archive. Those privy to such investigations swear secrecy and risk excommunication for violating that secrecy, note the authors.
Then there’s the technique of “mental reservation,” which, say the authors, is “used by a person who is caught between an obligation to keep a secret and a duty to tell the truth.” Furthermore, “Catholic moral theology allows a person caught in such a dilemma to use misleading words to deceive another so long as a deliberate lie is not told. This is commonly employed in order to avoid a greater harm.” Justification for mental reservation is built into the oath cardinals take to “never reveal to anyone whatsoever has been confided in me to keep secret and the revelation of which could cause damage or dishonor to the Holy Church.” This might go a long way toward explaining why church officials lie about scandal when, as the authors contend, honesty is the best policy. (Pub. Date: May 2006)
-- National Catholic Reporter, "Sex, lies, secrecy and abuse," http://ncron line.org/NCR_ Online/archives 2/2006b/ 050506/ 050506n.htm , Reviewed by BILL FROGAMENI, ~ May 02, 2006
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THE Roman Catholic Church is still not serious about confronting sexual abuse, only "managing" it, according to the Sydney bishop who headed Australian efforts to tackle abuse.
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, formerly a bishop in the Sydney archdiocese, says the Catholic Church needs to reverse 2000 years of teaching on sex and power as part of radical reforms from the Pope down.
While it refuses to look at some fundamental teachings – including sex outside marriage, women priests, homosexuality and papal power – the culture that produced and protected abusers will continue, he says.
These explosive claims – unprecedented for a bishop – are in a book to be launched tomorrow: Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church..
-- Adapted from The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), "Bishop calls for Catholic reform," www.theage. com.au/news/ national/ bishop-calls- for-catholic- reform/ 2007/08/24/ 11874625 24580.html , by Barney Zwartz, August 25, 2007
FRAWLEY-O’DEA, Mary Gail, 2007, Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
UNITED STATES -- Clinical psychologist Frawley-O'Dea offers a detailed look at the church sex-abuse scandal.
[Picture] Perversion of Power book cover
From a 1983 case in the Louisiana bayou to the Boston Archdiocese's headline-fueled implosion in 2002, clinical psychologist Frawley-O'Dea offers a detailed look at the church sex-abuse scandal.
-- Boston Magazine, http://boston magazine.com/ arts_entertain ment/articles/ city_journal_ perversion_ of_power , By J. L. Johnson, ~ March 08, 2007
AND “Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church” Chosen as an Outstanding Book of 2007
UNITED STATES -- I have praised Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea previously on this blog. I am pleased to report that CHOICE Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, has chosen Perversion of Power as one of its outstanding books of 2007.
-- Voice from the Desert, http://reform-network.net/?p=1274, ~ December 27, 2007
[Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2007 8:28 AM] [2007]
HILL, David, 2007, The Forgotten Children; Fairbridge Farm School and its betrayal of Australia's child migrants. - Unofficially Anglican.
AUSTRALIA and BRITAIN: The author, Mr David Hill, a British child migrant who went on to become head of NSW railways, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and Soccer Australia, called on the Fairbridge Foundation to confront the evidence in its files and abandon its policy of refusing compensation to people who say they were traumatised by their experiences at the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm Schools.
Brutality is reported in several pages of the book, and sexual abuse on 16 different pages.
With the help of his wife Ruby, in 1912 Kingsley Fairbridge opened the first Child Emigration Society Farm School in Pinjarra, 80km south of Perth, Western Australia.
In January 1913 13 boys arrived from Britain, and a further 22 boys arrived in July. (p. 30)
Mr Fairbridge had envisaged that each boy would leave the farm school with a sum of money and a land grant from the dominion government. (p. 30) (Just like the Bindoon legacy story, not one boy was set up on a farm.)
Mr A.O.Neville, a Western Australian official, reported around 1913 that the conditions were primitive and the Pinjarra set-up was overcrowded and no real farming was being carried on, so it was not training children for farm work.
In 1922 a former matron, Miss Williams Freeman, alleged maltreatment of the children at Pinjarra. (p 33) Kingsley Fairbridge sailed to London, where he successfully addressed criticism, and secured more funding. He returned to Western Australia, but died of a tumour on July 24, 1924. (p 34)
The Pinjarra farm school continued on, controlled by a British foundation and local management.
Fairbridge Farm School near Molong NSW, in the vicinity of Orange, had been established in 1938.
Approximately 1000 children passed through the school until it closed in 1974, including Mr Hill and two of his brothers.
Fairbridge officials in Britain told a 1998 House of Commons inquiry they had no records of abuse occurring after 1938, and officials from the Fairbridge Foundation in Australia told a Senate inquiry into child migration they were unaware of any improper or unsafe treatment of the children at Molong.
Mr Hill said reports of violent punishments (e.g., with a cut-down hockey stick), sexual abuse, neglect, substandard hygiene or inadequate food were made over several decades, and caused British officials to briefly black-ban Fairbridge in 1956.
The ban was lifted because of lobbying from the Fairbridge Society, whose chairman was the Duke of Gloucester.
The Molong farm school closed in 1974 (p 290).
Another similar but differently-oriented farm school was opened in Rhodesia, the first children arriving in 1946. (p 38)
There was little or no "parent-type" love or praise for the children, who seem to have spent more than 12 hours a day working, as well as trying to fit in schoolwork.
Few ever seem to have a proper primary education, let alone secondary or tertiary. David Hill, backed up by his mother and siblings, was one of the exceptions.
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SEE ALSO "Abuse of migrant kids 'covered up'," and "Abuse was their single lesson," The Weekend Australian, April 28-29, 2007
PODLES, Leon, 2007 (September 1), Sacrilege. - RCC.
A few chapters in and I began to see obvious patterns in pedophile priest rape crime across the country.
The more I read the more I realized, in city after city for the last half century kids in Catholic churches were raped, perpetrators were enabled to continue raping, victims and victims' families were shut up. And most astonishing, bishops and other hierarchy lied many times under oath, or conveniently forgot, and documents disappeared.
The way the pattern of crime is laid out in "Sacrilege" the logical next step from here should be federal indictments and Senate hearings to expose the reasons these crimes were able to continue for more than 50 years in the United States.
"When he was auxiliary bishop of Fresno, Mahony was also a licensed social worker and was therefore required by law to report child abuse. When he became bishop of Stockton, California in 1980, Mahony surrendered this license and removed himself from the reporting requirements."
-- See City of Angels, "Where do we go from here? Just keep telling the stories. A good place to start is "Sacrilege" by Leon Podles", Review by Kay Ebeling, ~ September 11, 2007 [2007]
WELSH, Lionel P., 1990 (orig. 1988), Geordie, Orphan of the Empire. - RCC.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: In 1936, aged 2, Lionel Welsh and his sister were put into Catholic orphanages in Newcastle-on-Tyne in northern England. His story of the cruel treatment with the nuns there is capped only by the cruelties he writes about at his next orphanage, the Christian Brothers' "Boys' Town" at Bindoon, north of Perth, Western Australia.
There the boys were expected to work in bare feet building the buildings. Reinforcing steel was old railway lines, lifted one at a time by several boys, at great risk. Concrete, mixed by hand, was taken by the boys up ramps in wheelbarrows.
Punishments included hits with the walking stick of Brother Francis Keaney (stated to be a Marist brother on page 20, although it was a Christian Brothers' institution), punches, and strappings on the bare backside.
On one occasion his leg was broken while he was out rabbit-shooting with "Pinky" Hayes, an adult visitor from Perth. He was forced to sit up in the kitchen for hours to instruct other boys how to prepare meals, before it was decided to take him by motor vehicle to Royal Perth Hospital to have his leg set and put in plaster.
One of the cruellest aspects was psychological. Those who ran Bindoon never told him about his mother, nor that she had put him into the orphanage because she had contracted tuberculosis (TB). He found out her existence only by breaking rules (a regular occurrence) by peering into a register kept by the orphanage.
The building skills he learnt there meant he could earn good wages, and at the age of 25 or so he went sub-contracting. Although he claims his personality had been harmed by the cruelties and hardships he had suffered, he married -- but after a few children had been born he began drinking alcohol to excess. His marriage broke down. After years in and out of alcoholism, Skid Row, etc., when he finally took the Alcoholics Anonymous programme seriously he went teetotal for a time. After a relapse, he finally straightened up.
(Laudatory comments on the back cover are by: The West Australian, Senator Jean Jenkins, Scott Hicks of Colour & Movement Films, and Max Harris.)
(COMMENT: The failure of supervision by both the Western Australian State Government and the Catholic Church's "Abbey Nullius" of New Norcia (since amalgamated out of existence) are obvious by reading between the lines. These supervision and discipline failures are also central to the disgraceful conduct of such institutions around the world in other countries like Ireland, Great Britain, Canada (native children), and Malta. Always remember, however, that the Churches are NOT to blame for the cruel orphanages that existed in Romania when it was a member of the Soviet bloc, and which for years since had not been made humane.)
IT USED TO BE OBTAINABLE from P & B Press, 1990, Perth (Western Australia), PO Box 81, Como, WA, 6952, Australia, Tel 08 9450 2513, Fax 9226 4346, but the owner has died - Webmaster, 19 June 2007; 174pp, 13 x 20 centimetres (5 x 8 inches), No index, 2 photographs. ISBN 0 9596606 5 8 [1990]
ANDERSON, Jane, 2005, Priests in Love: Australian Catholic Clergy and Their Intimate Relationships, (John Garratt Publishing, $34.95).
WESTERN AUSTRALIA - Albany woman Jane Anderson, 47, this year published this book, based on interviews with 50 Australian Catholic priests who have had intimate, sometimes sexual relationships.
She did the research for her doctorate, which she completed last year.
The ratio of priests worldwide has fallen from one for every 1797 Catholics in 1978 to one for every 2677 in 2003.
"Fr Jethro" says: "Priests who deny their sexuality go sour; they become very strict on others and become very rigid when it comes to doctrine. We priests don't see ourselves as good or beautiful, or as whole. We have a sense of being broken and dis-eased."
She cites former Benedictine monk Richard Sipe's findings that half of American priests are engaged in sexual relationships, and believes the figure would be similar in Australia.
(See more at Religion / Religion Chronology # Erodes.)
-- The West Australian, Weekend Extra section page 10, "The Human Spirit" column, "Celibacy erodes the priestly vocation," by Keith McDonald, keithmcdonald@wanews.com.au , November 5, 2005
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FENSTER, Julie M., and another; ? 2006, Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism.
ROME (CNS) -- Julie M. Fenster, a historian who co-wrote Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism, spoke about the book to U.S. priests and seminarians Feb. 27 at Rome's Pontifical North American College.
There are moves to have the 19th-century Father Michael McGivney become the first American-born parish priest to be canonized. After founding the Knights of Columbus, he worked as a simple pastor until his death at age 38.
-- Catholic News Service, "Author says McGivney bio could help restore respect for priests," www.catholic news.com/ data/stories/ cns/0601 197.htm , By John Thavis, ~ February 28, 2006 [? 2006]
KENNEDY, Eugene Cullen, ? 2005, The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality.
CHICAGO (IL) -- After viewing the inconsistent and defensive management and monitoring of sex-abusing priests in Chicago, many Catholics ask how could the bishops in general and Cardinal Francis George in particular have bungled the implementation of the clerical sex-abuse procedures that they themselves hacked out in Dallas four years ago?
The Frankenstein creature composed of hierarchical cast-offs is now rending the bishops who shocked it into life.
Eugene Cullen Kennedy, a former priest, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University Chicago. This is his most recent book.
-- See: Chicago Tribune, "Victims of their own monster," www.chicago tribune.com/ news/opinion/ chi-0602160 145feb16,1, 134315.story ; By Eugene Cullen Kennedy, February 16, 2006 [? 2005]
CULTRERA, Joe, 2006, "Hand of God," FILM.
SALEM (MA) -- Joe Cultrera, a documentary filmmaker from New York City, has come home again to tell a story.
This story is about his older brother Paul, who was sexually abused by the late Rev. Joseph Birmingham, a serial predator who served at St. James Parish in Salem in the 1960s.
Today in Montana "Hand of God" will premiere at The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, its first stop on a whirlwind tour across the country.
-- Salem News, "Far off in Montana, story of Salem man's abuse unfolds," www.ecnnews. com/cgi-bin/ 05/snstory. pl?-sec-News+ 1k589g0+fn- handofgod- 20060221 , February 21, 2006 [2006]
DAVIDSON, James D. (Prof.), 2006, Catholicism in Motion: The Church in American Society.
UNITED STATES -- This new book by Purdue University sociology Professor James D. Davidson is a series of essays about Catholicism in America. (Liguori Publications, $19.95)
Davidson covers the priest shortage, church leadership, worship practices, wealth of parishioners, the growing immigration population and the sexual abuse scandal.
Catholics' faith in God is steady, but Catholics' faith in the church is constantly in flux, especially with its leadership, according to his book.
Davidson's essays are based on columns he has written for 12 diocesan newspapers, including ones in Indiana, California, Maryland and Utah.
-- Newswise, "Expert: Catholics' Faith in Church Leadership in Motion," www.newswise. com/articles/ view/518095/ , ~ February 15, 2006 [2006]
PAPESH, Michael (Rev. Fr.), 2006, Clerical Culture.
MINNEAPOLIS (MN) -- A new book written by a Minneapolis priest is helping shocked parishioners examine the clerical culture Father Ryan Erickson was a part of.
Fr. Ryan Erickson is suspected, by a court decision, of having shot dead two people in 2002. It is said that one of them might have discovered he was sexually abusing a minor, and the other was shot because he witnessed the first shooting. In 2004 Fr Erickson, after being questioned on the two murders, is said to have suicided.
Father Michael Papesh's book, "Clerical Culture", recounts his own sexual assault as a young seminarian nearly four decades ago. -- Based partly on: KSTP, "Priest says Erickson part of 'clerical culture'," www.kstp.com/ article/stor ies/S13965. html?cat=1 , ~ February 04, 2006 [2006]
SHEA, George "Skip", 2005, "Catholic (Surviving Abuse and Other Dead End Roads)". MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE.
UXBRIDGE (MA) -- George "Skip" Shea will be taking his one-man multimedia show -- "Catholic (Surviving Abuse and Other Dead End Roads)" -- to New York City this weekend.
Mr. Shea said he was 11 when he was first abused by Rev. Thomas H. Teczar in 1971 and it continued with Rev. Robert Shauris until about 1977.
"I think it is important to point out -- which is something I think gets lost -- it's not only the horror of the physical abuse, but the horror of the mental abuse," he said.
"God and the guilt that the Catholic Church already ascribes to a kid is magnified by these priests," he said. The effect of both God and the guilt eventually created the path his life would take, he said. -- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass., USA), "Abuse victim deriving art from anger," www.telegram. com/apps/pbcs. dll/article?AID =/20051128/ NEWS/511280 358/1006/ NEWSLETTERS07; By Kathleen A. Shaw, kshaw@telegram.com , November 28, 2005 [2005]
JURKWICZ, Regina Soares, Unveiling the Politics of Silence: Sexual Abuse of Women by Priests in Brazil.
BRAZIL -- Regina Soares Jurkwicz, author of Unveiling the Politics of Silence: Sexual Abuse of Women by Priests in Brazil, said the South American country (about 125 million Catholics) could now be facing a problem of even greater dimensions than that uncovered in the US in 2002.
This week, a Brazilian priest was given a lengthy jail sentence after a court heard extracts from a diary that read like a paedophile priest's "how-to" manual. A magazine earlier published evidence that, according to estimates by Vatican investigators, one in 10 of Brazil's priests is involved in some form of sexual misdemeanour.
The Vatican was expected soon to publish details of a clampdown on the recruitment of gay priests aimed at quelling concerns that the church has become a refuge for paedophiles (man-boy). However, in Brazil many of the claims relate to male-female abuse.
-- Mail & Guardian, "Sex-abuse scandal shocks Brazil's Catholics," www.mg.co. za/articlepage. aspx?area=/ breaking_news/ breaking_news__ international_ news/&articleid= 257788 ; November 26, 2005
Also see: Sydney Morning Herald, "Priest sex scandal shocks Brazil," www.smh.com. au/news/world/ priest-sex- scandal-shocks- brazil/2005/11/28/ 1133026 405263.html ; By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and John Hooper in Rome, November 29, 2005 [????]
LANGBERG, Diane, ? 2005, On the Threshold of Hope.
DELAWARE, U.S.A. - "Abuse destroys relationships," said psychologist Diane Langberg in her book "On the Threshold of Hope," written for survivors of sexual abuse and their loved ones. "Instead of being known, we are hidden. Instead of being loved, we are used. Instead of having a voice, we are silenced. … Relationships become painful, frightening, chaotic places."
When priests sexually abused kids … the damage they did extended far beyond those boys -- their marriages, their friendships, their families, their faith in God, their trust in people. The effects can extend for generations.
-- The News Journal, "Impact extends beyond sex abuse victims," www.delaware online.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/ article?AID=/ 20051121/NEWS/ 511210354/- 1/NEWS01 ; By BETH MILLER, Nov/21/2005 [? 2005]
HAGGETT, Louise, 2005, The Bingo Report. $17.95 plus $3.95 shipping ($21.90) from CSRI Books, P.O. Box 246, Freeport, ME 04032. Quote ISBN No. 0 9770402 0 8. (sighted Nov 15, 2005 on www.axcessnews. com/modules/ wfsection/print. php?articleid= 6558 ).
FREEPORT, Maine, U.S.A.: This book links sexual abuse to mandatory celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood. According to the new groundbreaking study conducted by the Center for the Study of Religious Issues (CSRI), the longer a priest remains in the priesthood, the more likely he will struggle with mandatory celibacy both biologically and psychologically, and the more likely he will act on his struggles and become deviant or criminal in his actions.
-- U.S. Newswire, "New Book Links Clergy Sexual Abuse to Mandatory Celibacy,"
http://releases. usnewswire.com/ GetRelease.asp? id=56474 ,
Nov. 9, 2005
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PIERRE, Abbe, 2005, My God … Why?
FRANCE: Abbe Pierre, 93, RCC priest who tops French popularity lists, and
who champions the cause of the homeless, speaks out for married and female priests in a new book where he confesses having broken his vow of chastity.
He also writes "that he could imagine that Jesus Christ had been married to Mary Magdalene."
-- Reuters,
http://today. reuters.com/ news/news Article.aspx? type=world News&story ID=2005-10- 27T134016Z_ 01_SCH749130_ RTRUKOC_0_US- FRANCE- PRIEST. xml&archived= False ; By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor, ~ October 27, 2005
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COZZENS, Donald (Rev. Father), ? 1990s, The Changing Face of the Priesthood. In this book he commented that "straight men in a predominantly or significantly gay environment commonly experience self doubt." -- Quoted in The Dallas Morning News, "Are gay priests the problem?" by Michael S. Rose, Sunday, October 16, 2005 [? 1990s]
HAMILTON, Marci A., 2005, God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, 2005, Cambridge University Press, New York, Cambridge, etc., Hardback (ISBN-10: 0521853044 | ISBN-13: 9780521853040) Published May 2005 | 408 pages | 228 x 152 mm (9 x 6in). In stock $US 28.00 (A) (sighted on WWW August 31, 2005)
UNITED STATES of AMERICA: In my recent book, God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, I document the harm that comes from elected representatives acting according to the dictate of religious lobbyists, without consideration of the larger public good. This is a severe defect in our representative government -- and Santorum is the best modern example. … There was an abiding belief, at the Convention and among the Framers, that representatives should be "filters" of factions -- including religious factions, of which there was quite a variety at the time of the framing -- within the society, not simply stand-ins for such interests.[…] Senator Rick Santorum is no filter, as the following concrete examples will illustrate.[…] An uncontroverted fact is that the failure by the Roman Catholic Church and others to report the abuse meant that the vast majority - 98% of the predators - avoided conviction due to the short statutes of limitations. -- FindLaw, http://writ. news.findlaw. com/hamilton/ 20050811.html , ~ August 11, 2005 [2005]
ALLEN, John L., Jr, Opus Dei, 2005. UNITED STATES / VATICAN - Its defenders characterize Opus Dei, that ultra-Catholic movement, as a knitting circle, its detractors as a dangerous cult. Allen, Vatican correspondent for National Catholic Reporter, finds middle ground. He says no Opus Dei priest has ever been accused of sexual abuse, but on the other hand it has a body of doctrine that can seem confused. -- Monsters and Critics, "How Senator Rick Santorum, In Acting for His Church, Persistently Fails to Consider the Larger Public Good," http://books.monsters andcritics.com /nonfiction/reviews/ article_1042647. php/Book_ Review_Opus_ Dei_by_John_L._ Jr_Allen , By Kirkus, Aug 20, 2005 [2005]
WHITE, Marsh Reggie, A Huddle for Righteousness, May 2005. Fiction. UNITED STATES -- Due to the number of clergy sexual abuse and misconduct cases being reported today, US religious leaders are going through one of the most traumatic periods in religious history. In his timely new novel, A Huddle for Righteousness (AuthorHouse, May 2005, $12.95 paperback, 1-4208-1587-3), Marsh Reggie White presents a dramatic and creative story involving a Priest's fall from grace and God's justice for him and, ultimately, for us all. It involves a court room scene played out in heaven whereby Joshua, a High Priest, has been caught in a sinful act by Satan. (Fiction.) -- The Open Press, A Huddle For Righteousness, www.theopenpress. com/index.php?a= press&id=2948 , August 9, 2005 [2005]
AHERN, Cornelius, An Inch From Murder, 2005. UNITED STATES - This book was written 20 years ago and is now being brought to print for the very first time and deals with the author's life as a male victim of sexual child abuse. Drawing from the memory of past molestations from the age of four until 16, a trauma unfolded in adulthood profiling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The abuse by seven men (including Boston Catholic Priests, a policeman, close relatives and friends) was followed by the attempted murder of the author's latest assailant; the ensuing incarceration and the attempt now to bring the issues of male victimization into focus. -- eMediaWire, PRWEB, June 14, 2005 [2005]
JOSEPH, Dieuner, Restoring Honor to an Honorable Vocation, AuthorHouse, 2005. COLONIA, N.J. (PRIMEZONE) -- Unscrupulous evangelists and predatory priests have shamed Protestant and Catholic leadership and promoted mistrust among their faithful. The book offers readers an honest look at the problem of sexual abuse by priests and pastors and challenges Catholic and Protestant churches to be more proactive in dealing with the issue. -- ArriveNet, June 9, 2005 [2005]
DIOCESE OF ORANGE, "Breaking the Silence", 2005. CALIFORNIA - "Breaking the Silence," the recent documentary produced by the Diocese of Orange ostensibly to warn kiddies about its priestly sex-abuse problem, doesn't blame anybody. It wholeheartedly ignores the role Church leaders played in condoning child rapes in Orange County parishes over the past three decades. The cover-up continues. -- Orange County Weekly, by GUSTAVO ARELLANO, ~ June 09, 2005 [2005]
[Unknown], Toward Understanding and Healing, 2005. -- "Group Seeks Support for Victims of Clergy Abuse," WQAD, www.wqad.com/ Global/story.asp? S=3433747&nav= 1sW7ag2E , ~ June 5, 2005 [2005]
SWETLAND, Kenneth L., Facing Messy Stuff In The Church, 2005.
UNITED STATES - What do you do when a convicted pedophile gets saved in prison and upon release wants to join your church? What do you say to him and how do you confront the issues involved? Do you inform the church of his being there?
In this book, author and theological professor, Kenneth L. Swetland (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he also serves as campus chaplain) prepares church leaders to deal head-on with the messy stuff, rather than merely doing damage control after the problems have erupted.
-- MichNews , May 16, 2005
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CORNWELL, John, The Pontiff in Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II, 2005, Doubleday, 336 pages, $US24.95. UNITED STATES: As one of the longest-serving and most active popes in history, John Paul II has left an indelible mark on the Roman Catholic Church. But his major legacy, Cornwell believes, will be his centralization of authority in the Vatican and his enfeeblement of local dioceses. Bishops thought they lacked the authority to act decisively. -- NorthJersey.com ; "The legacy of John Paul II", By Bill Williams, The Hartford Courant, Sunday, March 20, 2005 [2005]
KELLY, Judith, Rock Me Gently: A True Story of a Convent Childhood, 2005, Bloomsbury, €15.80.
BRITAIN - I read Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra many years ago and vividly recall having to stop halfway through, as the story became too harrowing. I never did finish the book. Rock Me Gently by Judith Kelly awakens those same feelings. The complete helplessness you feel as stories of childhood abuse unfold before your eyes is overwhelming.
-- Sunday Business Post, "Haunting tale from a convent", February 27, 2005
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DEERY, John, writer-director, "Conspiracy of Silence'," 2005. FILM. Fiction. UNITED STATES: Catholic Church scandals are the stuff of "Conspiracy of Silence", the latest Irish outrage, an over-the-top attack on church-celibacy rules, the price paid by pretending priests don't have sex, and the extremes (at least in the movies) that the Vatican and its bishops will go to in keeping this dirty little secret from the faithful. A priest stands up in the middle of a secret Vatican conference and shouts, "The church has AIDS! How many of you here in this room are HIV positive?" Nobody hears of this until, three years later, when Father Sweeney (Patrick Casey) kills himself. His circle of friends, including young priests who were under his influence, comes under suspicion. The message is that celibacy is denying the church good priests, and that the fact that there are noncelibate priests corrupts the entire institution. (Fiction.) -- Orlando Sentinel, March 11, 2005 [2005]
BENNETT, Sean David, "A House Divided," 2005. PLAY.
NEW YORK - Two days before the world premiere of this damning indictment of the Catholic church's handling of its sexual-abuse scandal, defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for child rape, and indecent assault and battery.
Bennett's recent plays include "George W. Bush - The Musical" and "An American Fall," about Adlai Stevenson and Joseph McCarthy.
The family at the center of "A House Divided" comes together for an ostensibly happy occasion. But Molly and Thomas' sons and their daughter-in-law all split before the candles are lit.
-- Newsday, "The church scandal in a family spat," February 24, 2005
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ROSE, Michael S., The Lavender Mafia, 2006 proposed. UNITED STATES - Spence Publishing announced it had acquired the rights to publish Michael S. Rose's The Lavender Mafia, according to a report in "Publishers Marketplace." The book is an account of the inner workings of a far-reaching network of gay clerics and their allies in the Catholic Church that has promoted its own, intimidated its enemies, and paved the way for the current sex abuse scandals. -- Renew America, "Author's forthcoming book," www.renewamerica. us/columns/ abbott/ 050220 , by Matt C. Abbott, February 20, 2005 [2006]
PANDE, Vinod, "Sin", 2005. FILM.
MUMBAI, INDIA - The Catholic leaders of Mumbai have condemned Vinod Pande's latest movie "Sin." The film is being viewed as a sensationalized depiction of a Priest's romantic escapades.
The Director claims that the story is true and is that of a Christian priest in Kerala.
-- IndiaFM, "Steamy 'Sin' upsets Catholics," February 19, 2005
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BONAVOGLIA, Angela, 2005, Good Catholic Girls; How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church, Harper Collins Publishers. NEW YORK -- "I remind this Church how fortunate it is to have such brilliant and devoted women clamoring for the Catholic hierarchy to open its doors, bring the wizard out of the sacristy, rethink the sacred with women in mind, and make a new Catholic Church." Publisher's news release quoting the introduction to journalist and author Angela Bonavoglia's new book Good Catholic Girls. Despite the movement's growing profile, only recently has the world learned that Catholic women are the driving force behind reform.
They include Joan Chittister, Mary Ramerman, ordained a Catholic priest before 3,000 jubilant supporters in a packed theater in Rochester, New York; Frances Kissling, Barbara Blaine, who created the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [SNAP]; and Sister Jeannine Gramick, who defied orders and ministered to gays and lesbians. These and other Catholic women are rethinking theology, working to open ordination to all, challenging the Church's sexual repression, and calling the Church to openness and accountability. -- U.S. Newswire, "Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church," http://releases. usnewswire.com/ GetRelease.asp ?id=43107 , Feb. 14, 2005.
[COMMENT: Before faithful RCs turn away from such rebellious thoughts about, for example, "women's reproductive rights," think what the Church has taught. It taught that every act of sexual intercourse had to be within marriage and open to life (no birth control), and wives had to give way to their husbands. For most people, this means a multiplicity of conceptions. The clergy (who in the Latin Rite don't officially have sex or wives or conceptions) have been brought up on a diet of man-made Natural Law, plus scripture quotes and misquotes such as the the Lord giving Eve her punishment.
In the RC Douay version published in 1609, God is supposed to have told Eve her conceptions will be multiplied: "I will multiply thy sorrows and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee." (Genesis 3:16) This is a translation that is just plain wrong, and the "twist" is somewhat softened in the Authorised Version of the Church of England, but is not in most other translations, nor even in some modern RC translations. COMMENT ENDS.]
[DOCTRINE: Get a modern Bible translation of Genesis 3:16.
Catholic Monsignor Ronald Knox, The Holy Bible, 1954: "Many are the pangs, many are the throes I will give thee to endure; with pangs thou shalt give birth to children, and thou shalt be subject to thy husband; he shall be thy lord."
Good News Bible, © 1976: "I will increase your trouble in pregnancy, and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him."
New World Translation, 1984 rev.: "I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you."
New Jerusalem Bible, 1989: "I will give you intense pain in childbearing, you will give birth to your children in pain. Your yearning will be for your husband, and he will dominate you."
Not a word about multiplying her conceptions! The real meaning in the original Hebrew is more likely to be that He would multiply her SUFFERING during pregnancy, NOT multiply the NUMBER of her pregnancies. Has the penny dropped?
(Leave for another day the part about the husband dominating the woman. And suspend judgement on how Eve, who had never been pregnant, could have her pregnancy sufferings increased!)
The RC women who oppose the Vatican's reproductive policies are not revolting against the Lord. Instead, such opponents are rejecting vain human reasonings, most of which are against scripture, science, compassion, and common sense. DOCTRINE ENDS.] [2005]
BECK, Martha Nibley, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith, 2005, Crown (Random House).
Martha Nibley Beck makes this and a host of other allegations against her aged father, mother, siblings, Brigham Young University, Mormons in general as well as leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in an explosive new book.
-- "Rebel Mormon's memoir ignites a furore," The Salt Lake Tribune, www.sltrib. com/search/ ci_2555256 , By Peggy Fletcher Stack, ~ Feb 07, 2005. [2005]
BROWSE at Powells City of Books: www.powells. com/s?kw= Leaving+ the+Saints &x=64&y=8
MARIN, Carol, "Keeping the Faith: Becoming a Priest in Today's Catholic Church", Documentary Film, 2005. MOUNT WASHINGTON (OH) -- Local seminary became filmmakers' subject as church scandal unfolded. Cincinnati Enquirer, February 01, 2005. The sex abuse scandal was unfurling in the Roman Catholic Church - and a documentary film crew wanted to watch from inside the walls of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's seminary. Church officials agreed. And what the cameras saw in 2002 and 2003 - the impact the scandal had on the archdiocese's future priests - became a documentary called "Keeping the Faith: Becoming a Priest in Today's Catholic Church." [2005]
DICK, Kirby, and SCHMIDT, Eddie, "Twist of Faith", DOCUMENTARY FILM, 2005. TOLEDO (Ohio) USA: This is a documentary recounting the sex abuse scandals that erupted in the Toledo Catholic Diocese in 2002. The filmmaker is the well-regarded director Kirby Dick. It'll be debuting and playing in the American Documentary competition - generally considered the strongest segment of Sundance. It is on the shortlist for a best documentary nomination at the Academy Awards. Five nominees are picked - and are set to be announced on Jan. 25. Toledo Blade Jan 14, 2005 [2005]
REYNOLDS, Lisa Rene, RUTLEDGE, John P. (Editor), Coming Out & Covering Up, 2004. TORRINGTON (CT) USA -- While she has yet to find a specific niche among the fiction, non-fiction and self-help books she's written, Dr Lisa Rene Reynolds puts a great deal of her personal experiences as a therapist into all of her subject matter.
Reynolds, who lives in New Milford and works in Torrington, has been caught up in the whirlwind of attention over her latest release, Coming Out & Covering Up, a commentary by local priests on the pedophilia scandal that has rocked the Catholic faith.
Jan 12, 2005. Also see Dead End Street Bookstore. Amazon Books paperback list price $US9.95 (sighted Jan 13, 2005). Amazon details:
Paperback: 76 pages; Publisher: Dead End Street Publications; LLC (August, 2004); ISBN: 097484103X; Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches [approx 21.5 x 14 x 0.5cm]; Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces.
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SCHWAB, Charlotte Rolnick, Sex, Lies and Rabbis: Breaking a Sacred Trust, 2004 / 05, Bloomington: 1st Books Library, 277 pages, $14.95.
ISRAEL: This book reveals how rabbis violate the trust placed in them by female followers
The analogy between a religious leader and a shepherd, and between his parishioners and a flock of sheep, illustrates the relations of power and authority that exist between the two sides.
The rabbi, qadi, sheikh or minister are the leaders of a community of believers, who come to them for counseling and advice. Partly a horrifying personal memoir, partly research survey, this book ought to be read by people of any faith, or none.
Source: Haaretz, "When trust is abused." www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/524 120.html , By Eli Somer, ~ Jan 7, 2005. [2004]
HEALEY-CONLON, Mary, "Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church", DOCUMENTARY FILM, 2005. WARREN (Rhode Island) USA: Mary Healey-Conlon has refinanced her home to free up funds to make this film, which she began videoing in 1999 after, working with a team of attorneys, she met abuse victims who had been years trying to get cases with the Roman Catholic Church into court. Fearing that the Church's lawyers might stall "forever," she resolved to document victims' stories. Now she, a Roman Catholic, is only just beginning the painful process of reconciling her discoveries with past assumptions about faith and the Church. Co-producer is Louise Rosen of Brookline. The hour-long film will debut for the general public at Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2005. Main source: Barrington Times, "Warren woman exposes Church cover-up on film," www.east bayri.com/ story/2836 1599683 1321.php , ~ Jan 06, 2005
[COMMENT: "For what sharing do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?" (2 Cor 6: 14). COMMENT ENDS.] [2005]
PODLES, Lee, A Harsh Light: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, Due out soon, according to RenewAmerica. 2004/05. CHICAGO (IL): An example - "They had strong connections to the Chicago area. When Bishop Hayes discovered James Janssen was an abuser, he sent Janssen to Chicago to live at St. Isaac Jogues parish in Hinsdale, to study at Loyola University, and to be treated by Father William Devlin, S. J., M. D., and J. V. P. Stewart.
"No one told the pastor of St. Isaac Jogues that Janssen was an abuser. Janssen worked with the Boy Scouts and families of the parish, and started abusing a twelve-year-old scout while convincing the therapists that he was cured." See - RenewAmerica, "Pedophile priests took victims to morgue," www.renew america. us/columns/ abbott/ 041210 by Matt C. Abbott, December 10, 2004. [2004/5]
TASMANIAN OMBUDSMAN Listen to the Children; Review of claims of abuse from adults in State care as children, 2004.
HOBART (Tas) Australia:
Most of the allegations relating to these institutions were of sustained physical and emotional abuse and, while they were established to cope with difficult boys which may help to explain the strictness and severity of the discipline regimes, there can be no excuse for the reports of sadistic and inhumane physical punishment that allegedly took place.
Female claimants mostly complained of sustained emotional and physical abuse, but there were also instances of sexual abuse reported.
62 claimants (25 per cent of the total) reported abuse in church run Homes. Most of the complaints were made against the Catholic Church followed by the Salvation Army. Given that these were the largest homes, the number of abuse incidents reported is consistent.
The allegations related mostly to serious physical and emotional abuse but there were 17 separate incidents of sexual abuse alleged, mostly at Barrington Boys' Home, Maylands Girls' Home, at Boys' Town and St Joseph's Orphanage/Aikenhead House. No sexual abuse claims were received in respect of Mt St Canice. [66 pages printed, 77 in PDF]
Source link: Report by the Tasmanian Ombudsman,
www.justice. tas.gov.au/ ombuds man/ Child%20Abuse %20Report%20- %20Final. pdf ,
ISBN 0- 0-9757146-0-0, November 24, 2004
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SHANLEY, John Patrick, "Doubt", 2004, STAGE PLAY. NEW YORK (AP) - In a fast 90 minutes, Shanley skillfully examines the uncertainty surrounding a priest and his relationship with a young male student in a Catholic grade school. Rumors swirl. But are they true? "Doubt" provides the wondrous Cherry Jones with her best role -- authoritarian principal Sister Aloysius in the Bronx -- since her Tony-winning performance in "The Heiress" in 1995. The time is 1964 and Vatican II has sent winds of change blowing through the Catholic Church. But Sister Aloysius has standards to uphold, and she wants to bring down the personable Father Flynn (Brian F. O'Byrne). [COMMENT: Do not confuse the play's author, John Patrick Shanley, with the Father Shanley who is facing trial for alleged child sex abuse. END.] Source: WTOP radio network, www.wtopnews. com/index.php? nid=114&sid= 340910 , By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic, November 23, 2004. [2004]
GANDOLFO, Geraldine, "Unholy Orders," DOCUMENTARY FILM, 2004, about abuse of children in Church institutions.
AUSTRALIA / SCOTLAND: Through a mutual friend, Gandolfo was introduced to 84-year-old Cath Yeomans, who, now living in Australia, had along with her sisters suffered a horrific childhood
at an institution run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Glasgow.
Recklessly, by her own admission, she suggested to Cath that she make a documentary about the Scottish claimants, who at that time were mounting what became a 450-person class action. She had never made a film and took herself to film school to learn the craft.
Gandolfo herself appeared before an Australian senate inquiry into the care of children in institutions. The title of the report, Forgotten Australians, has also, much to Gandolfo's regret, become its fate. It was tabled in August 2004 and became lost in the recent election campaign. Unholy Orders was screened on Thursday Nov 4, 2004, at 8.30pm on SBS. -- adapted from The Age, "Victim rallies abused," www.theage.com. au/articles/2004/ 10/26/ 109866 7752831.html , By Paul Kalina, October 28, 2004 [2004]
PARKER, Jim, Raped in the house of God, (iUniverse, Inc.; April 2004) ISBN: 0595317529. PAPERBACK 142 pages.
List Price: $15.95. SNAP Price: $14.95.
Raped in the House of God is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand the lifetime effects sexual abuse by priests has on a person's life.
Author Jim Parker tells his story of soul murder and his ongoing journey of recovery. His story recounts not only the immediate castastrophic impact of a 12-year-old boy being sexually abused, but how his parents' request to keep the abuse a secret led to over forty years of frustration and self destructive behavior. Parker gives the readers details of how his life has been altered.
READ: Jacket Text.
BUY THE BOOK (Found at SNAP 11 Oct 2004)
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ALLEN, John L. Allen, Jr, All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Works, 2004, Random House. Allen is the Vatican Correspondent for National Catholic Reporter and an analyst for CNN and National Public Reporter. -- The Reading, http://www2. townonline.com/ reading/arts Lifestyle/ view.bg? articleid=101682 , Thursday, October 7, 2004 [2004]
COLDREY, Barry M., Dr., 2004 A Christian Apocalypse: The Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church, 1984-2004.
AUSTRALIA: Table of Contents: Part 1: Foreword, Celibacy practice, third millennium; ‘High Noon in Boston' The Crisis Time-Line; Catastrophe to Action; Sexual Network/Sexual Underworld; The Dynamo of Reform; The Celebrity Molester;Lay collusion in sexual abuse; Community and Zero Tolerance; Investigator, Whisteleblower, Busybody
Part Two: Sexual Abuse by clergy through the ages; Brotherhood of St Gerard Majella; The Sexual Revolution; The history of the modern abuse crisis (USA); The abuse crisis in Australia; ‘Men behaving badly'; The Gay Underworld; The Active Gay Priest; Theory and Practice; AIDS and the Priesthood; Bibliography
Copies at: $Aust 34.95 / £34.95, $US 34.95 p&p included, are available from Tamanaraik Press, P.O. Box 12792, a'Beckett Street Post Office, Melbourne Vic 8006, AUSTRALIA email: busherw@bigpond.com or Tel: (03) 9480–2119. ABN: 28 979 094 649. Ordinary personal cheques will do. ISBN 1 875258 88 4 (E-mail 05 Oct 04; the Foreword came by e-mail of 17 Oct 04) [2004]
LIEBREICH, Karen, Fallen Order; Intrigue, Heresy, and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio, 2004, (Piarist Order), is a book claiming that the priest who is the patron saint of Catholic schools covered up sex abuse. Father Joseph Calasanz, the 17th-century Spanish priest who founded the Piarist Order to educate the children of the poor, was canonised in 1767. In the book, Karen Liebreich, a Cambridge-educated historian, quotes from a letter Calasanz wrote to the headmaster of one of the order's schools in Naples in 1631 about a priest accused of abuse: "I want you to know that your reverence's sole aim is to cover up this great shame in order that it does not come to the notice of our superiors, otherwise our organisation, which has enjoyed a good reputation until now, would lose greatly." -- The Guardian, Britain, "Saint who covered up for child abusers," http://books. guardian.co.uk/ news/articles/0, 6109,1192267, 00.html , by Stephen Bates, April 15, 2004; and see book review in The Guardian, http://books. guardian.co.uk/ reviews/ history /0,6121,12219 70,00.html , May 22, 04
Also: "New Book On Priestly Abuses In 17th Century A Timely Topic For Today," Religion News Service, www.religion news.com/ press02/PR092304.html , Sep 22, 04 [2004]
AUSTRALIAN SENATE, Community Affairs References Committee, Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children, 2004. AUSTRALIA: About 500,000 Australian children experienced orphanage, Home, or other out-of-home care during the last century. Many suffered abuse -- physical, emotional, sexual, child labour exploitation, and neglect. This report by a committee of the Senate of the Australian Parliament examines the evidence, sifts the reasons, and makes recommendations, including a suggestion that Parliament apologise to those who were victimised. 410pp. ISBN 0 642 71239 5 -- Parliament of Australia, www.aph.gov. au/Senate/ committee/ clac_ctte/ inst_care/ report/ , August 30, 2004. [2004]
BERRY, Jason, and RENNER, Gerald, Vows Of Silence: The Abuse Of Power In The Papacy Of John Paul II. 2004, Free Press, 353 (or 368) pages, $US 26; Tom Roberts review:
It makes clear that no matter how many new reports and norms are issued, no matter how many episcopal apologies are stacked up amid the wreckage of the crisis, the only real way out of the current mess is to institute bold new mechanisms for establishing transparency and for holding church leadership accountable. -- National Catholic Reporter, USA, "Authors capture deeper story of crisis,"
http://natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/020604/ss020604a.php (entered by courtesy of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker,
www.ncrnews. org/abuse , of February 04, 2004) Picture by courtesy of a US newspaper around March 16 2004
And see The New York Review of Books, "http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026?email," www.nybooks.com/articles/17026?email , Gary Wills review, Volume 51, Number 6 · April 8, 2004
AUSTRALIAN EDITION: (Being released 1 April 2004) Berry, J and Renner, G, Vows of Silence, Hodder Headline (Australia), Level 17, 207 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000. Tel: (02) 43901300, email: hsales@hha.com.au ; ISBN 07 336 168 87. By courtesy of Dr Barry Coldrey, March 31, 2004
REVIEW of AUSTRALIAN EDITION: Review by Gavin Simpson, gavin.simpson @wanews. com.au , "Belief and Beyond" column, "Book scathing of Vatican silence," The West Australian, p 14 of "Weekend Extra," Saturday, May 15, 2004.
… Pope John Paul II … Depite his inspirational commitment to universal human rights, … for many years this charismatic Pope chose to ignore the gravest violations of the rights of children in his own Church. Nearly a decade before the scandal drew widespread coverage in America, … bishops from North America and Australia briefed John Paul II about the crisis but he provided no plan of action. […] Both the authors are committed Catholics […]
… one of the Pope's favourites, Spaniard Marcial Maciel, founder of … the Legion of Christ … abuse of young seminarians and has got away with it … complaints to the Vatican … have been ignored or covered up. … years of abuse at the hands of Father Maciel. Legionaries take … a special oath never to speak ill of "Nuestro Padre" … Maciel …
… American canon lawyer, Father Tom Doyle, … went from a career in the Vatican's diplomatic service in the United States to becoming something of an outsider as a crusader for the rights of victims of abuse.
… Berry and Renner say … it is, above all, a matter of abuse of power. […]
Vows of Silence also faces up to one of the most difficult issues about sex abuse -- how much it is related to a "gay culture" in the priesthood. […]
"There is a crucial distinction between homosexual priests who embody genuine Christian witness, and the gay priest culture that arose in the 1970s, cynical about celibacy, riddled with hypocrisy and narcissistic behaviour. […]
In the end, the authors say, it is hard to imagine how a rejuvenated priesthood can be created without optional celibacy. (Hodder Headline, $35) [The front cover or dust jacket illustrated in the WA review is different to the illustration of the U.S. edition.]
See also: Boston Globe, "Vows of Silence authors make their case against John Paul II," www.boston. com/ae/books/ articles/ 2004/08/24/ vows_of_silence_ authors_make_ their_ case_ against_john_ paul_ii ; By Kevin Cullen, August 24, 2004
And see "Why Orthodox Catholics Are Angry With the Legion of Christ", By Michael S. Rose, New Oxford Review, ~ June 11, 2005
FILM: Journalist Jason Berry explored this scandal in his documentary "Vows of Silence," which he showed to an audience of approximately 30 people last night in Chafee Social Science Center as part of the University of Rhode Island Film Festival. -- The Good 5-Cent Cigar, "Filmmaker screens documentary on church sex scandal", http://media. www.ramcigar. com/media/ storage/ paper366/ news/ 2008/04/23/ Campus/ Filmmaker. Screens. Documentary. On.Church. Sex.Scandal- 3343289.shtml ; by Bridgette Blight, April 23, 2008. [2004]
MORAN, Martin, The Tricky Part. 2004 Stage play. RCC.
UNITED STATES: Moran regales his audience with anecdotes involving the nuns who educated him on the joys of music, the mystery of grace, and the sinfulness of the flesh. But it's a seminary dropout in a sleeping bag who teaches him a lesson so profound it takes decades to sink in -- that evil can wear a friendly face, seductive on the surface, treacherously sad underneath.
-- The Village Voice, "Pains of Youth,"
www.village voice.com/ issues/0417 /mcnulty.php ,
by Charles McNulty, April 26th, 2004
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GREELEY, Andrew M., Priests: A Calling in Crisis, 2004.
In this book Father Greeley, a U.S. author, takes up the cause of men like Fr Tom Doyle - men who do a tough job in difficult circumstances. A sociologist, Greeley examines the abuse crisis through the prism of statistics. He concludes that most priests like their work. Celibacy is not a burden to most of them. Dissatisfaction comes in not being appreciated, either by their bishops or a public that now views too many of them with suspicion.
University of Chicago Press, 156 pages, $US 19.
Review by courtesy of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.ncrnews.org/abuse , Tuesday March 16 2004.
Picture by courtesy of a US newspaper around March 16 2004
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GREELEY, Andrew, The Priestly Sins, 2004, a novel, by the Rev. Andrew Greeley. Source: "Local author's novel tackles problems within Catholic Church," ARIZONA, Fox 11, By Stephanie Innes, ~ March 5 2004, www.fox11 az.com/ news/local/ stories/ KMSB_local_ novel_ 030504. 58a9 a748.html .
AND see "Novel about Catholic clergy focuses on sex abuse, coverup," INDIANAPOLIS (IN), Indianapolis Star, www.indystar. com/ articles/ 8/152569 -3238-021.html , By Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press, June 6, 2004 [2004]
WILLIAMS, Sue, Mean Streets Kind Heart: The Father Chris Riley Story.
AUSTRALIA : Father Chris Riley, a Salesian Catholic priest, who runs the Youth Off The Street network and has helped about 45,000 street kids, says a pedophile Salesian brother physically assaulted him when he was a student at the order's Rupertswood College, Melbourne, Victoria, and he saw fellow students being abused. Other former students say that physical violence was the norm and sexual violence was not unusual.
-- The Age, July 8, 2004
[2004]
COLEMAN, Monica , 2004 The Dinah Project: A Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence. (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, $US 23).
Source:
Ann Arbor News,
"Church's silence deepens a wound ,"
www.mlive.com/ news/aanews/index. ssf?/base/news- 9/108703533 067660.xml , BY CATHERINE O'DONNELL, Saturday, June 12, 2004
[2004]
JAKES, T.D., "Woman, Thou Art Loosed", 2004, feature-length FILM. This is the effort of Bishop T.D. Jakes, the well-known pentecostal preacher and writer from Dallas, Texas, to put a face on the problems associated with childhood sexual abuse. The film, starring Kimberly Elise, is due to open Friday October 1st in more than 400 theatres. It got a first-place win at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. -- See Providence Journal, www.projo. com/ religion/ content/ projo_20040925_ relsex25. 4a02c. html , By Richard C. Dujardin, September 25, 2004 [2004]
VILLARRUBIA, Mona, 2004, From Hurt To Healing. UNITED STATES: Villarrubia tells much of the story of her sexual abuse at the hands of two trusted priests, and the ways it distorted all her roles as an adult: as a mother, friend, sister, wife and lover. Her psychic damage had lain buried and ticking away for years, long after the acts stopped during her childhood in England. It emerged with a fury in the late 1980s when she, as a young mother, raged inexplicably at her two bewildered sons. Years of grueling therapy followed. A serious flirtation with suicide. Two hospitalizations. -- See New Orleans Times-Picayune, www.nola.com/ search/index.ssf?/ base/news-0/109427 5688100820.xml?nola , By Bruce Nolan, Saturday, September 04, 2004 [2004]
BRESLIN, Jimmy, 2004, The Church that forgot Christ. Free Press, 239 pp., $US26. UNITED STATES: "Breslin's latest book, "The Church That Forgot Christ," is an impassioned denunciation - not of the Catholic faith, which Breslin has practiced since his days as a parochial school kid in Queens - but of the Church as an institution. As Breslin documents here, his slow recognition of his own moral disgust with the Church came as more and more accounts of the sexual abuse of children by priests began to reach his desk." -- Newsday, "Faith in turmoil," www.nynews day.com/feat ures/books mags/nyc-a393 5426aug22, 0,1906340. story?coll= nyc-bookre view-head lines ; August 22, 2004. Also see: Taipei Times, "Jimmy Breslin: Man of faith or bully?" www.taipei times.com/ News/feat/ archives/ 2004/08/14/ 2003198762 ; Reuters, Page 16, Saturday, Aug 14, 2004. Also see: Boston Globe "A man of his words," www.boston. com/ae/ celebrity/ articles/ 2004/07/29 /a_man_ of_his_words , By Irene Sege, July 29, 2004. [2004]
GILL, Alan, 2004 Interrupted Journeys, Simon and Schuster, Australia.
AUSTRALIA:
Formal book launch to be on 5th July 2004, at NSW Parliament House, Sydney, by novelist Patrick Keneally. It is about Youth Migration to Australia. Dr Barry Coldrey's e-mail of 2nd June 04 says the book has hit the bookstalls. (Listed 6 June 2004)
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STEINFELS, Peter, 2004, A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America.
UNITED STATES: Steinfels fears that unless American Catholics overcome what he calls a "vacuum of leadership," they will experience "a soft slide" into Catholicism in name only, as has happened in much of Europe.
-- Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, "A People Adrift, book by Peter Steinfels,"
www.pbs.org/ wnet/religion andethics/ week705/ perspecti ves.html ,
~ October 5, 2003
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REED, Cheryl L., Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns. ? 2004. UNITED STATES: Margaret wasn't a rule-breaker when she first entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato, Minn., in 1942. But when she reported a priest for molesting high school girls under her care, and nothing was done, she began to see a problem. In 1969 Margaret founded the National Coalition of American Nuns. Its first proclamation demanded that priests stop meddling in women's religious communities. -- Chicago Sun-Times, "The life that led to rebellion," www.suntimes. com/output/ lifestyles/ cst-nws- nuns05. html , March 5, 2004 [? 2004]
BERGERON, Gary, 2004, book Don't Call Me a Victim: A Personal Story of Faith, Hope & Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church", Arc Angel Publishing . Newsitem in "Abuse survivor pens story," By Eric Convey, Boston Herald, Sunday, July 25, 2004. BOSTON (MA): Bary Bergeron, who was sexually abused, was vocal for fellow plaintiffs. Then at the height of the crisis, he stepped forward as an unofficial liaison to the Roman Catholic church for abuse survivors who wanted to preserve or re-establish ties to their faith. What started as a kind of log or diary during 2002-03 has now been expanded into a book. Also see the TheBostonChannel.com newsitem of September 10, 2004. Arc Angel Publishing handed distribution to Koen Book Distributors - ArriveNet, Jan 12, 2005. [2004]
THOMAS, Anthony, 2004, FILM "Celibacy: The Devil and the Flesh". This film was reviewed around June 28, 2004. One comment was that "the official Church's rigid perception of sexuality is rooted in a fascinating history of denial and coercion. The catalyst for filmmaker Anthony Thomas' work was the recent global wave of crimes involving priests who have sexually abused children. He uses this topic to launch an exploration into the psychological and theological origins of the crisis, and it is an incredibly information-packed hour and 15 minutes." -- The Seattle Times, http://seattle times.nwsou rce.com/html/ artsenter tainment/ 2001965816 _kay28.html , by Kay McFadden.
And see: "It's an unsubtle knock on the Catholic Church spiced with a peep at some of the world's more peculiar self-abuse practices performed in the name of religion." -- Denver Post, www.denver post.com/ Stories/0, 1413,36~ 78~223 7093,00.html , By Joanne Ostrow, Denver Post TV critic [2004]
MULLER, James, and KENNEY, Charles, 2004, Keep the Faith, Change the Church, the first book dedicated to telling a story of Voice of the Faithful's founding. Co-authored by VOTF founding president James Muller and author Charles Kenney. UNITED STATES: Keep the Faith, Change the Church is a highly readable narrative of the founding story of Voice of the Faithful. While no single book can tell the whole story, Muller and Kenney articulate the steady advance of an awakening spirit in the laity that has moved from outrage to resolve in returning responsibility to Catholicism. From the first gathering in St. John the Evangelist School basement in Wellesley, MA through the 2002 convention in Boston, and on to the time of Cardinal Law's resignation, the authors describe the surprises, disappointments and revelations about Church dynamics and politics as well as survivors' prophetic courage, priests' struggles and Catholic activism. To order, click: www.kintera. org/TR.asp? ID=M63741 5325574225 663355&iEv ent=14456 [2004]
ALMODÓVAR, Pedro, 2004, FILM "Bad Education".
SPAIN - It's a comic thriller film about bribery, the Catholic Church, abuse and obsession in Spain (in Spanish, subtitled in English). It defied the grim public mood just after the Madrid bombings to become an unexpected box-office sensation in Spain. It's Almodóvar's first proper tilt at film noir, and it's as fatalistic and beautiful as anything he has put on screen. It's also the first Spanish film to open a Cannes festival. See -- The Times (Britain),
"Bad boy grows up,"
www.timeson line.co.uk/ article/0,, 7943-1107479, 00.html , approx. May 16, 2004.
Review -- The Telegraph (Britain), "Guys in many guises," www.telegraph. co.uk/arts/ main.jhtml? xml=/arts/ 2004/05/21/ bfbad21.xml , May 21 2004; the film explores the fallout from sexual abuse at a Catholic school in 1960s Spain. [2004]
CHALBERG, Michael, 2003, Shattered People: Journeys to Joy.
SAN LEANDRO (CA) - Pastor Michael Chalberg has helped victims heal from the damage of childhood clergy abuse.
Now, he is writing a series of books about the spiritual and emotional healing process, including 2003's "Shattered People: Journeys to Joy," which relates the story of one victim of Monsignor Vincent Breen at Holy Spirit Parish in Fremont.
[2003]
GILSON, David, "The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism;" 2003. Amazon Books provides details: Hardcover: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.17 x 9.18 x 6.34 [2.6 x 23.2 x 16.6 cm]; Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; 1st edition (July 1, 2003) ISBN: 0060530707. In-Print Editions: Hardcover, Paperback (Rev&Updtd).
UNITED STATES: Review from Amazon Booklist: Much has been written about the crisis over sexual abuse that has plagued the contemporary Catholic Church. It is Gibson's contention that this scandal and the subsequent reaction to it are rooted in a much larger and long-term crisis. That the church has been in a state of turmoil for decades is a reality that cannot be ignored. Coupled with this is the fact that American Catholics have always struggled with their dual identity … (The author will be among those honoured at the conference of Voice of the Faithful, planned for the Worcester Centrum Centre, Mass, USA, on Saturday, November 13, 2004. Frist noted in a Telegram and Gazette newsitem of Nov 3, 2004) [2003]
ST PAUL CHURCH MEMBERS (Boston), "A Cry Heard at Ramah," 2003, Stage presentation of dance, music, and readings. BOSTON (MA): The sordid stories of sexual abuse by Catholic priests is dealt with in this presentation on a simple stage in a church basement, two stools flanking a crude table of branches in front of a cloth backdrop of navy, sky blue, and gold. The choir sings: "Nothing can trouble, nothing can frighten. Those who seek God shall never go wanting." The song comes near the end of "A Cry Heard at Ramah," a stage work mingling dance, live and recorded music, and readings from the Bible and Catholic documents. The work was written and performed twice during Lent by congregants at St. Paul Church near Harvard Square. -- Boston Globe, 'Ramah' voices pain, rage - and hope, By Rich Barlow, Apr 19, 2003 [2003]
LAKELAND, Paul, The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church, Released: 01 April, 2003, Hardcover, ISBN: 0826414834.
Review from Reference Place: A Must for Concerned Catholics.
UNITED STATES: Paul Lakeland has produced a work which needs to be read by every Catholic concerned with the Roman Catholic Church's current preoccupation with its internal institutional self and thereby missing its mission to the whole world. Lakeland explains historically the development of clergy/laity roles and the need to re-think them in this era when HUMAN solidarity is essential to end any and every kind of poverty of body, mind, or spirit of all humanity. He poses instead the reality of "ministers in the church" and "missionaries to the world". He posits that all who work "ad intra" are there precisely to facilitate the institutions mission "ad extra". He wants an end to anything that sees the mission to the world as second class or second place in the life of the institution.
(This author, also, will be among those honoured at the conference of Voice of the Faithful, planned for the Worcester Centrum Centre, Mass, USA, on Saturday, November 13, 2004. Frist noted in a Telegram and Gazette newsitem of Nov 3, 2004)
[2003]
FLYNN, Eileen P. (Ph.D), Catholics at a Crossroads: Coverup, Crisis, and Cure; 2003, Paraview Press, USA. UNITED STATES: Prof. Eileen Flynn teaches at Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, and is author of Catholics at a Crossroads: Coverup, Crisis, and Cure, (Paraview Press, 2003). Contact Dr. Flynn at Eileenpflynn@aol.com . Source: Paraview (Transforming the World, One Book at a Time), www.paraview. com/features/ flynn.htm [2003]
FLYNN, Eileen P. (Prof), Catholicism: Agenda for Renewal. (A professor at St Peter's College.) -- See "At a crossroads" Chicago Tribune, April 5, 2005 [? 2005]
JACKOWSKI, Karol, The Silence We Keep (approx. October 2003) (Harmony / Crown). A book about the Catholic church's clergy sexual abuse crisis from a nun's perspective. UNITED STATES: See The Republican, USA, www.masslive. com/cries/ republican/ index.ssf?/ base/news- 0/10669806 1629000.xml , section in column "Cries and Whispers," Oct/27/2003.
And check: "She thinks the sex abuse scandal that rocked the church, which is spending hundreds of millions to settle cases stemming from the misdeeds of its priests, is only the tip of a very large iceberg. She sees a time when American Catholics will split from the Vatican and when women will be ordained as priests, the kind of talk that rattles the walls of the Catholic Church." -- "A denim nun with the writer's habit," Newsday, www.newsday. com/news/col umnists/ny- ddugg4031423 nov07,0,19 78793.column? coll=ny-news- columnists ; by Dennis Duggan, November 7, 2004 [2003]
POWERS, William, Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina (October 2003, University Press of America, USA). The editor of a Catholic newspaper, John Strange, was dismissed just before Christmas 2003 for publishing an interview with Powers that included a statement that the Catholic Church is broken and wounded and in need of healing. Also, Strange quoted Powers as saying, "No organization has trouble finding key workers unless there is something wrong with it." -- Independent Weekly, http://indyweek. com/durham/ 2003-12- 31/news2.html , by Patrick O'Neill, December 31, 2003, AND, News Observer, http://news observer. com/news/ story/317 8530p-2863 418c.html , By Vicki Lee Parker [2003]
WEIGEL, George, The Courage to be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church; ? 2002, USA. The three main parts of the crisis are: (1) Clergy sexual abuse, the most prevalent of which is homosexual abuse of teen-age boys and young men, (2) The crisis of failed episcopal leadership, (3) The crisis of discipleship.
"Sexually abusive priests and timid or malfeasant bishops are inadequately converted Christian disciples," Mr Weigel said. "And it's not a media-created crisis." Mr Weigel is the author of the papal biography Witness to Hope. -- The Record, Perth, "New study cites a culture of dissent… and more," p 14, Jan 23 03 [? 2002]
FRANCE, David, Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal; Broadway Books. $US 26.95. 672 pages, ? 2004. UNITED STATES: Recent child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have brought new meaning to the term "white-collar crime." In Our Fathers, an incredibly detailed and insightful examination of the crisis, author David France of Newsweek reveals a corporate cover-up soaked in depravity and deceit and completely devoid of compassion and Christian charity. The verdict: Stunning in its insight.
And see: www.thedaily star.com/news/ stories/2004/ 03/06/book.html , Mar 6 2004
www.ajc.com/ sunday/ content/epaper/ editions /sunday/arts_ 049049507537 51e90029. html , January 18, 2004. [? 2004]
FRANCE, David, "Showtime's Our Fathers" proposed film cast has been joined by Ted Danson (Emmy and Golden Globe Awards) to play Mitchell Garabedian, the bold Boston lawyer who represented some of the first victims of molestation to have the courage to speak out. It is the film version of David France's bestseller. Brian Dennehy will play no-nonsense, straight-talking, Father Domenic "Spags" Spagnolia who finds himself on the defensive when he tries to work from within the Church. Tony and Emmy-winning stage and screen actor Christopher Plummer will portray Boston's controversial Cardinal Bernard Law in the film. Production is slated to begin June 21 in Toronto and Boston. -- "Danson Joins Showtime's Our Fathers; Telepic examines the sexual abuse scandal that erupted inside the U.S.'s Roman Catholic Church", FilmStew.com ; www.filmstew. com/Content/ DailyNews /Details.asp? Content ID=8728& Pg=1 , By Lisa Johnson, Wednesday, May 19, 2004 [? 2004]
COLDREY, Barry M., The devoted, the dull, the desperate and the deviant: the staff problem in traditional care, AND other essays.
AUSTRALIA: Still available 28 Oct 2003. $24.95 Australian, the same figures in $US and £sterling (because of airmail costs and bank charges). Send orders to Dr Coldrey, busherw@bigpond.com , or Tel. (03) 9480 - 2119, 7/67 Collins Street, Thornbury, Vic 3071, Australia.
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Coldrey, B M, The devoted, the dull, the desperate and the deviant: The staff problem in traditional residential care … and other essays. The other essays are: (1) 'The special dimension of horror': Corporal punishment, pervasive severity, criminal assault and sexualised violence in traditional residential care. (2) 'A strange mixture of caring and corruption': Church orphanages and industrial schools', Reprinted from Studies, Dublin, Ireland, Autumn, 2000. (3) 'The Queensland Inquiry into institutional abuse' ‹ a good model for Ireland, Studies, Dublin, Ireland, reprinted, Winter 2000. Recommended Retail Price inc. p&p. Australia: $24.95; UK and Ireland: £ 24.95; US: $US 24.95 from: Tamanaraik Press, P.O. Box 12792, a Beckett Street Post Office, Melbourne, Vic 8006, Australia. Tel (03) 9480-2119, and email: barry5coldrey@yahoo.com . (E-mail info of 31 Mar 04) [? 2003]
PARKINSON, Patrick, Child Sexual Abuse and the Churches; 2003, Aquila, Australia. Review at www.anglicanmedia. com.au/index.php/ article/articleview/ 773/1/17 (checked June 2003). AUSTRALIA: There are numerous questions that Christians ask when sexual abuse within the Church is raised. The most common include "Why don't children tell?", and "Shouldn't Christians who were abused forgive and forget?" In this courageous book, warmly commended in the foreword by Australian Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen and published with the support of the Diocese of Sydney's Professional Standards Unit, Professor Patrick Parkinson addresses these and many other questions. [2003]
ESPINOSA, Alejandro, 2002, The Legion.
MEXICO CITY - Alejandro Espinosa, a 67-year-old rancher and former seminarian said he was forced to perform sexual acts on the Legion of Christ founder Rev. Marcial Macielin the 1950s. In 2002, frustrated with the lack of a Vatican investigation into the men's allegations, Espinosa published The Legion, a book in which he relates the alleged abuse in graphic detail. He said he received death threats after the book came out.
-- The Boston Globe, By Marion Lloyd, May 9, 2005
[2002]
LIKOUDIS, Paul, Amchurch Comes Out; The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda; 2002, Roman Catholic Faithful Inc, Petersburg (Illinois, USA).
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Nothing has been spared by these arrogant, homosexual-friendly hijackers: Sacred Scripture, the Sacred Liturgy, the sacraments, every aspect of Catholic doctrine including the Church's moral teaching, catechesis, Catholic education, seminary formation, and priestly life.
Chapter 10 has about ten pages summarising part of Dr Barry Coldrey's findings in his book Religious Life Without Integrity: The Sexual Abuse Crisis Within the Catholic Church. It states his book stemmed from a detailed report he had been asked to write for the Congregation for Religious Orders and Secular Institutes in Rome.
The book began circulating privately in April 2000; his then superiors in the Christian Brothers asked him to withdraw it, but copies began circulating on the internet. In late March 2001, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Vatican had "banned" Dr Coldrey's book. (pp 215-224). [It can be bought from P & B Press in Australia, and is on the internet (see elsewhere on this page).]
Paul Likoudis's book ends with quoting the Fr Paul Shaughnessy, S.J., article of November 2000, stating that the Catholic Church had become corrupt and needed strong actions by the laypeople and the Vatican, including a policy of removing corrupt bishops, refusing to allow homosexuals into the seminaries, and restoring simplicity, that is, removing luxury from the clergy's life. Available for $US 24.95 postpaid from www.thewandererpress.com/ amchurch.htm (checked June 2003) . Also available in hardcover from John XXIII Co-op Ltd, www.j23.com.au/ , shop@j23.com.au , PO Box 22, Ormond (Melbourne) Vic, 3204, Australia, for $45.90 in June 2003; 260pp, 15 x 23 cm (6in x 9in), hard covers, index, bibliography (partial list of newspaper headlines). ISBN 0-9719558-0-8 [2002]
GILHOOLEY, Steve, 2001, The Pyjama Parade.
IRELAND - At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse. For Gilhooley, now 42, the sexual abuse was less serious than for some other students, but it was there and the repercussions were intense. Several of his contemporaries would later attempt, or actually commit, suicide. For Gilhooley, the issue would erupt volcanically, the molten lava of suppressed childhood memories suddenly cascading into adulthood with devastating consequences. He underwent therapy, was advised to write down his experiences, and the result was the publication in 2001 of a searing memoir called The Pyjama Parade. The title was a reference to the weekly caning of young boys in their pyjamas. […]
"… I was listening to all these poor people saying they had been abused and then been called gold-diggers. One of the reasons I came out was to stand beside these people and say, 'No, they are telling the truth.' And then they went for me too." Gilhooley is an RCC priest.
-- The Scotsman, "Act of Faith," by CATHERINE DEVENEY, ~ July 17, 2005
For the book's details, visit http://uk-shop.aest. org.uk/cgi-bin/ama. cgi?mode=books_uk& search_type=Author Search&input_ string=Steve+ Gilhooley&locale=uk . [2001]
KENNEDY, Eugene Cullen, The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality, 2001, St. Martin's Press, USA, ISBN: 0312266375, Hardcover, $US 19.95 ($13.97 discounted). UNITED STATES: Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago. See www.christianity- books.com/The_ Unhealed_ Wound__ The_Church_ and_ Human_ Sexuality_ 0312266375.html . Found Jun 3, 2004, at http://natcath. org/ NCR_ Online/ archives2/ 2004b/052804/ 052804x.htm [2001]
LIVINGSTONE, Tess, 2002, George Pell, Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney.
AUSTRALIA:
"This is a fine biography of one of Australia's most controversial figures [Sydney Roman Catholic Archbishop, Dr George Pell, formerly R.C. Archbishop of Melbourne]. Meticulously researched and clearly written, it also raises the crucial matter of how unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse can be used as a weapon against those who are perceived as ideological and political opponents." -- Professor Ross Fitzgerald.
In recent decades a war has been waged within the Catholic Church between traditionalists and those who want to drain its teachings and institutions of much of their meaning. This is the story of that struggle, told through the life of a leading combatant, George Pell, who has spent much of his adult life battling attempts to, in his words, "trivialise Jesus Christ".
[COMMENT: Dr Pell's part in the famous "60 Minutes" programme of June 2 2002 in which he admitted that the Catholic Church paid "silence money", and his 10-day denial of this is told in a way that avoids his contradictory and incorrect statements. No attempt is made to explain his four-fold denial when he was asked if young Ridsdale had contacted him to report that his uncle, Father Ridsdale, had sexually abused him. COMMENT ENDS.]
Tess Livingstone is the editor of the opinion page at the Courier
Mail in Brisbane.
-- www.duffyandsnell grove.com. au/titles/ george_pell.htm . 484pp, 13 x 19.8cm (5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in), soft covers, index, endnotes, ISBN 1 876631 52 X, $22.00.
Also see comment at www.cathnews.com/ news/301/167.php
[2002]
DE BECKER, Gavin, 1999, Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children And Teenagers Safe (And Parents Sane), The Dial Press, Random House, Inc., New York, NY, USA.
UNITED STATES: Useful book to read for parents who are interested in learning how to better protect their children.
(by courtesy of Pokrov Book Recommendations www.pokrov. org/Pokrov/ resourc.html , sighted Mar 9, 2005
[1999]
BERRY, Jason. Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children; 1992. Won a Religious Public Relations Council Wilbur Award and a Catholic Press Association Book Award; 1992, Foreword by Professor Father Andrew M. Greely. Doubleday, New York. University of Illinois Press: 2000 edition, 440 pages, 6 x 9 1/4 inches (15 x 23.5 cm), Paper, ISBN 0-252-06812-2, $US19.95 (checked 07 Feb 03, Paperback $US19.95).
UNITED STATES: The Catholic Church's history of monarchical rule, grounded in celibacy, stands at a painful crossroads. The book gives mini-biographies of some abuse victims and their families, fallen priests and their bishops, lawyers for both sides, prosecutors, admirable priests and Vatican diplomats, therapists, insurers, nuns, homosexual activists, seminarians, theologians, journalists and editors, who took part as the sex abuse crimes were exposed and publicised. Jason Berry, a journalist, stumbled onto the clergy sex-abuse problem, little dreaming it was as big as it was and would involve him for years.
The first part of this book follows the child molestation scandal from Father Gilbert Gauthe in Louisana, 1983, to Washington, as abuse cases and cover-ups began breaking nationwide.
Mr Berry found that when he wrote up a $US 405,000 sex-abuse settlement by the Catholic Church on ONE FAMILY, the Campbells, around 1985, the following important news media refused to publish it: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Mother Jones. Finally a progressive editor, Linda Matys, of Times of Acadiana, Lafayette, put him on the staff for a month, thus allowing Berry to publish in national news media after his newsitems appeared in that local paper. (page 32. For background research look at the issue of May 23, 1985.) Part two studies the political dynamics of celibacy and homosexual-heterosexual tensions in clerical culture. The final section chronicles the bishops' reaction to escalating abuse cases, and also reports a countermovement by women and men challenging them.
Also, the 1992 edition of 408 pp, ISBN 0-385-47305-2, was available from John XXIII Co-op Ltd, www.j23.com.au/ , shop@j23.com.au , PO Box 22, Ormond (Melbourne) Vic, 3204, Australia, for $26 (Australian) in June 2003. [1992]
HARRIS, Michael, 1991, Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel.
CANADA - Local headlines claim that more Catholic churches are closing their doors, this time in Cape Breton. Growing up Catholic, I sometimes wondered about the dogma. The Michael Harris book … turned innocent doubt into sickened outrage. I didn't want to believe that priests could be that deviant and the church that devious, but Harris's book was a slap in the face. …
For decades, the church had kept a clean house by simply moving the dirt around from school to school and parish to parish.
-- CBC News, "Mass exodus,"
www.cbc.ca/ news/viewpoint/ vp_robertson/ 20051109.html ,
CBC News Viewpoint | More from Vicki Robertson | November 9, 2005
CROSBY, Michael H., 1991, The Dysfunctional Church; Addiction and codependency in the family of Catholicism; Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). UNITED STATES: In this book the Rev. Michael Crosby argues that the Roman Catholic Church is dysfunctional because it is addicted to power and control plus the unmarried clergy method of working. Using modern writers' theories as a framework, he then uses parts of St Matthew's Gospel as a corrective. Clergy celibacy and the power structure led to the clergy child sex abuse in Newfoundland, a 1990 report states. This inquiry found that the St John's "Archdiocesan leadership did, in fact, have knowledge, since the mid-1970s, of deviant or sexually inappropriate behaviour" by clergy, but because of the clerical celibate climate of the institutional Church let it go on. A celibate Capuchin Franciscan himself, he has opposed the addiction to celibacy, power and money that is exhibited by the RC leaders. He says that like the other followers he was a co-dependent, striving to leave his co-dependency arising from the addiction of RC leaders. He uses modern thinking allied with the collegiate co-operative thinking of the early Christians as shown in The Acts and Galatians. 256 pp, 15 x 22.5 cm (6 x 9 inches), soft covers, no index, endnotes (chapter by chapter), International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-87793-455-x (pbk.), Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 91-71250; 1991 (to this website 24-25 Jan 2004) [1991]
BARTON, Ronald G. and LEBACQZ, Karen; 1991, Sex in the Parish; Westminister/John Knox Press, Louisville. BOSTON GLOBE book Betrayal, about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, www.boston.com $US 23.95 (inserted 26 Jul 02) [1991]
HUNTER, Mic, Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse, 1990, Ballantine Books, NY, NY, USA.
UNITED STATES: This book addresses the spiritual dimensions of abuse.
(By courtesy of Pokrov Book Recommendations www.pokrov. org/Pokrov/ resourc. html , sighted Mar 9, 2005
[1990]
HODGES, Mark (Father), Forgiving, 1990, 1994; Elijah Publications, Grove City, OH, USA. UNITED STATES: Orthodox priest discusses forgiveness on a deeper level than a superficial forgive-and-forget mentality. [Note: Forgiving is available through St. Ignatius of Antioch Press, 442 South Charles St., Lima, OH 45805-3365, (419) 222-2029, Click here to go to the St. Ignatius Press Web site.] (By courtesy of Pokrov Book Recommendations www.pokrov. org/Pokrov/ resourc.html , sighted Mar 9, 2005 [1990, 1994]
RUEDA, Enrique T. (Father), The Homosexual Network, 1981, 700 pages, details with extensive documentation some of the inroads made by homosexuals into the Catholic clergy 25 years ago. -- York Daily Record, http://ydr.com/ story/op-ed/19895 , by DAVID M. DREW, Sunday, March 14, 2004; listed here after that date [1981]
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BLYTH, Bruce, 1997, In the Shadow of the Cross;
This is the story of VOICES (Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty, Exploitation and Supporters); how the victims of the Irish Christian Brothers' Western Australian orphanages and the United Kingdom and Malta child migrant schemes fought for justice; the scandal that ought to have cleaned up the Roman Catholic Church in Western Australia; lecherous brothers let loose on orphans and others, a police and legal system that turned its back, the brothers' names plus some facts also about priests caught for sex abuse.
238 pages, 15.5 x 22 centimetres (6 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches), soft covers, index, references and endnotes, bibliography. ISBN 0646337742 __ $24.95 The author, Bruce Blyth (~ 80) of P & B Press, died on July 25th, 2006. [1997] BLYTH, Bruce, 1999, Counting the Cost. This includes the Text of the VOICES submission to the British House of Commons Health Committee inquiry in 1998 about the ill-fated British children who were sent to Australia up to 1967 and who were physically, sexually and psychologically abused and ruthlessly exploited in the R.C. Christian Brother's orphanages. The evidence shows how the Western Australian Government ignored and brushed aside reports they received from the civil service and others; 64pp, 15.2 x 22 cm (6 x 8 5/8 in), soft covers, footnotes, no index. ISBN 0-9586413-0-7 (postage and packing free) -- $15.95 [1999] COLDREY, Barry M., 2001, Religious Life Without Integrity; (he was ordered to take it off the Internet, but it appears at www.thelinkup.com/integrity-toc.html); addressing the sexual abuse crisis throughout the Catholic Church, including material from countries other than Australia; sexual problems in the seminary, gay priests and the sexual underworld, the problems of celibacy, the "Inquisition" alive and well, priests who "spill the beans" marginalised, "hush money" and the art of covering up. (This book represents a maturing and widening of study by Dr Coldrey, who had previously been an official historian for the Christian Brothers in W.A., and who inter alia wrote The Scheme, the Christian Brothers and Childcare in Western Australia, 1993, Argyle Pacific Publishing, O'Connor, and the muc |