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BOOKS about carnal child abuse by Church priests, brothers, etc. |
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 Archbishop Peter Jensen and published with the support of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney's Professional Standards Unit, Professor Patrick Parkinson addresses these and many other questions.
LIKOUDIS, Paul, Amchurch Comes Out; The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda; 2002, Roman Catholic Faithful Inc, Petersburg (Illinois, USA). The Wanderer’s news editor Paul Likoudis has written what we believe to be the most definitive and comprehensive analysis of the present crisis of the Catholic Church in America. The book reflects Paul’s fifteen years of intensive reporting on the disastrous effects of modernist, dissident bishops, priests, theologians, and Church bureaucrats on the integrity of the Catholic Church in America. 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 http://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
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).
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. Part two studies the political dynamics of celibacy and homosexual-hetereosexual 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.
LIVINGSTONE, Tess, George Pell; 2002, Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney. "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". Tess Livingstone is the editor of the opinion page at the Courier Mail in Brisbane. -- www.duffyandsnellgrove.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
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BLYTH, Bruce, 1997, In the Shadow of the Cross;
the story of VOICES (Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty, Exploitation and Supporters); how the victims of the Christian Brothers' W.A. 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
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BLYTH, Bruce, 1999, Counting the Cost; includes the Text of the VOICES submission to the British House of Commons Health Committee inquiry in 1998 about the ill-fated children who were sent to Australia up to 1967 from the U.K. 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 COLDREY, Barry M., 2001, Religious Life Without Integrity; (he was ordered to take it off the Internet, but it appears at http://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 much franker secret report Reaping the Whirlwind which surfaced about 1995. He has researched far wider now into the worldwide Catholic Church, and his startling additional conclusions are moving a bit towards those of the U.S. R.C. Doyle-Mouton Report 1985, and of the author and former U.S. priest A.W.Richard Sipe, who stated on the ABC's "Foreign Correspondent" on 19 June 2002 that about 50% of priests were not keeping to the celibacy rule, invented in 1079 / 1123 A.D.); 82pp, 21 x 29.7 cm (8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in), soft covers, footnotes, index, bibliography. ISBN 0-9586413-1-5 __ $17.95 Publishes The Needle periodically pbpress@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~pbpress http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/carnalbooks.htm |
BOSTON GLOBE book Betrayal, about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, http://www.boston.com $US 23.95 (inserted 26 Jul 02)
FORTUNE, Marie, Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, the Women he Sexually Abused, and the Congregation he Nearly Destroyed; 1989, Harper, San Francisco.
LEBACQZ, Karen, and BARTON, Ronald G. Sex in the Parish 1991. See Barton
ORMEROD, Neil and Thea, When Ministers Sin; Sexual Abuse in the Churches; 1995, Millenium Books, Sydney. It was written from a Christian perspective, covering Catholic and other Western Churches, and sex abuse of children, teenagers and adults of both genders. It compared the Church leaders' hiding reaction to what they ought to have done.
Scriptural explanations are given covering the problem of evil, and the book argued the unusual idea that the Old Testament demand on Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac (Genesis 22:2) arose from "compulsive religious fanaticism" (p 95), and this and the New Testament idea of the sacrificial death of Jesus could be thought of as parental child abuse! (p 97) After quoting Jesus's remarks including "whoever wishes to be first . . . must be slave of all" in Mark 10:42-45, the book states: "Until the Christian churches develop cultures and structures which minimize the possibilities of such abuse, they will not be following the example of Jesus." (p 106)
The book also gave case histories, including abuse by non-celibate and celibate male clergy and by a nun sexually fondling a female.
Besides listing important previous books and articles on the subject, the book stated that the three key books about pastoral sexual abuse were by Marie Fortune 1989, Peter Rutter 1989, and Karen Lebacqz and Ronald G. Barton 1991. (p xi) The preface was by Dorothy McRae-McMahon, national director for mission, Uniting Church in Australia. Neil Ormerod was listed as a theologian and author, dean of studies, St Paul's Seminary, Sydney, and Thea Ormerod with a degree in social work worked as a domestic violence project officer. They had four children; 178 plus xiv pp, 15 x 23 cm (6 x 9 inches), soft covers, footnotes, no index, select bibliography. $13.20 from Elizabeth's, Perth, Mar 2003 (previous price $19.95).
• PORTER, Dr Muriel, Sex, Power and the Clergy, written by an insider, tells the story of the current crisis and asks the hard questions: why have Church leaders failed again and again to deal with sexual abuse? Is celibacy to blame in the Catholic Church? Is unfettered clergy power and lack of accountability a factor? Or is the true cause much deeper - the Churches' failure to come to terms with their ancient suspicion of both women and sexuality? $29.95 including GST from Anglican Media Bookshop. Dr Porter also wrote Sex, Marriage and the Church: Patterns of Change, $18.65 inc GST. "Muriel Porter knows well the resistance of churches in dealing with very sensitive and explosive issues. She's an active Anglican who has sat on church synods, she is married to priest Brian Porter, and she's a journalist and author. Muriel has been awarded the Order of Australia for her advocacy of women's and social justice issues in the church, and she is the author of many books, including her latest, Sex, Power and the Clergy." -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Religion, The Spirit of Things, "Sex, Power and the Clergy," www.abc.net.au/ rn/relig/spirit/stories/s841561.htm , with Rachael Kohn, on Sunday 4 May 2003.
ROSE, Michael S., Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church; 2002, Regnery Publishing, Washington. The child sex-abuse crimes in the U.S. and some causes. Some U.S. seminaries prefer their versions of "diversity", "inclusion," and "tolerance" to traditional clean holy living.
He tells of a seminarian, John Bollard, who sued people in a Jesuit seminary for sexual harassment! (pp 21-22, 82). [Page 21 says he told KGO-TV on Aug 14 97, but p 82 said the matter was made public during his appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes in May 1999.] And the harassment was of a homosexual kind! Another man was sexually harassed so much at a seminary that he obtained a restraining order from the court! (p 69)
A health professional who was also the Master of a Masonic Lodge (long opposed by Catholicism) and had lapsed from the Church, Dr Joseph Wicker, was deciding on admissions to a Cincinnati seminary. (pp 34-35)
One seminarian got into trouble with the authorities at Mount Angel Seminary, Oregon, when he refused to study a book they said was part of the course, but which showed men performing oral sex! (p 52)
Senior seminarians expected the juniors to be their sex-partners. A man who raped two novices was promoted to "dean of novices." (p 84) Students who affirmed the standard Catholic teaching on sex, authority, and the sacraments were marked down as out-of-date, and some were expelled.
The rosary, visits to the chapel, and having a picture of the pope in your room were actively discouraged in some seminaries! Throughout the book examples are given of such un-Catholic and/or un-Christian behaviour being reported to heads of orders and bishops, but no corrective action was taken. A huge inquiry ordered by the Vatican was staffed by U.S. people, and was a whitewash.
The non-traditional teachers and students problem also allegedly existed in Louvain, Europe. Several facts about the sex-abuse scandal are detailed, too. $54.95 from Fidelity, fidelity@j23.com.au, online book store www.j23.com.au , PO Box 22, Ormond, Vic, 3204, Australia; 276 pp, 15 x 23 cm (6" x 9"), hard covers and dust jacket, index, references/notes, ISBN 0-89526-144-8, Dewey 262.142
[ADDENDUM: Lawyers for the American College at Louvain, Belgium, are asserting that Fr David Windsor was defamed in this book -- Fidelity, Oct 2002, p 9, reprinted from The Wanderer, Aug 1 2002. END of ADDENDUM]
THE RECTOR of The American College at Louvain Responds to Michael S. Rose's Goodbye, Good Men www.acl.be/Rector's%20Response%20to%20Goodbye,%20Good%20Men.htm "It is with sadness that I am obliged in the interests of justice and truth to respond briefly to scurrilous charges made against The American College of the Immaculate Conception, its students, and faculty members in the book Goodbye, Good Men, by Michael S. Rose. First of all, the former student upon whose testimony the allegations are based was dismissed from The American College seminary program with just and reasonable cause. The Formation Faculty's professional decision to dismiss him in June 2000 was unanimous." (and more) -- Very Reverend Kevin A. Codd, Rector
MICHAEL ROSE responds to critics of Goodbye, Good Men; Defends accuracy and says critics did not do their homework. Lifesite News www.lifesite.net/ ldn/2002/dec/ 02121806.html , Dec 17 02. Some of the critics allegedly had not even read the book, but got their criticisms into print. Or go direct to each response: www.cruxnews.com/crisisprinter.html , www.cruxnews.com/registerprinter.html , www.cruxnews.com/scurrilous.html , and www.cruxnews.com/goodbye.html
ROSSETTI, Stephen (ed), Slayer of the Soul: Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church; 1990, Twenty-Third Publications, Mystic.
RUTTER, Peter; Sex in the Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power -- Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers and others -- Betray Women's Trust; 1989, Mandala, London.
BOOK opposing Celibacy for Catholic Clergy:-
HERMAND, Pierre, The Priest: Celibate or Married, 1965, Dartman Longman & Todd, London; Translation © Dartman Longman & Todd; a Libra Book. First published by Calmann-Lévy (Paris) 1963 under the title Condition du Prêtre: mariage ou célibat? Also published in the Netherlands.
PRIEST'S BOOK on Catholic Church and his life, commenting adversely on Celibacy:-
GAINE, Tom, and BRENNAN, Elizabeth, Winter has passed, 2002, Published by Elizabeth Brennan, Perth, Western Australia.
The recollections of Father Thomas Gaine (born 1929), trained in Ireland, officiated mainly in Western Australia, now retired back on his family farm at Kenmare, Ireland.
"In my opinion, celibacy should not be a prerequisite for Priesthood. ... I do not believe that a celibate is necessarily a better Priest. ... Of course there have been times when I have been lonely. ... it should not be imposed, it should be freely chosen. Unfortunately, we have lost some wonderful young -- and not so young -- men who were loving, caring, sensitive Priests." (p 143)
"Yes, I would have loved family life and a partner to help me in my vocation as a Priest. ... I do believe that Priests should be able to marry if they wish. And I do believe that the time is not too far off when celibacy for Priests of the Catholic Church will no longer be obligatory. I pray for that day." (p 247)
Orders to 4 / 4 Maybole Court, Greenwood, WA, 6024, Australia. 254pp, 14.8 x 21 cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in), soft covers, no index or footnotes,
ISBN 0-9581026-0-0, $15 plus $4.50 postage and packing.
Book covering sexuality and other feelings of ex-Catholics
BISHOP, Sherry, Immaculate Misconceptions.
More than 15 million Catholics have made the decision to leave the Church permanently, yet so many still struggle with the conflicting issues of their Catholic upbringings and a painful legacy of Catholic guilt. This is a healing book that takes an honest look at the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of numerous former Catholics as they deal with these important issues. Incorporation interviews and anecdotes with exercises to help former Catholics face and cope with psychological and emotional factors like shame, sexuality, self-doubt, and guilt, this manual also stresses the importance of integrating what was valuable about being raised within the Church. Special advice and help for the victims of childhood abuse are also included.
Visit: http://www.growlocal.com/bishop/ for access to printable order form. Or Telephone Orders: 1-800-571-3422;
Fax Orders: (360) 683-2568;
Mail Orders: Veranda Press, RE: Immaculate Misconceptions by Sherry Bishop,
P.O. Box 626, Carlsborg, WA 98324, USA
BOOKS on general child abuse:-
• MULLINAR, Liz, and HOPKINSON, Simon, The Liz Mullinar Story,
1997, Hodder & Stoughton, Rydalmere NSW, 302pp, $25, with index, hard cover. Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA), asca@hunterlink.net.au www.asca.org.au PO Box 361, Cessnock, NSW, 2325, Australia.
• MULLINAR, Liz, and HUNT, Candida, Breaking the Silence,
1997, Hodder & Stoughton, Rydalmere NSW, 326pp, $20, no index, soft cover. Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA), as above.
For anyone who imagines that only one or two Churches are facing accusations of child sex
abuse, please check:
"Paying
for the sins of the Fathers," Anglican (Church of England), Roman
Catholic, United Church, and Presbyterian Churches in Canada face child sex and physical abuse compensation claims for $C 1000m, Australian Anglican dioceses facing ruin: The Weekend Australian, March 2-3 2002, page 23
"Abuse of Trust:
Child Sexual Abuse and the Churches," Background Briefing;
Catholic Archbishop of Denver U.S.A. apologises to victims of Church
sexual misconduct, Australian Anglican Primate says abuse
claims could bankrupt dioceses in Australia as in Canada:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s531384.htm April 14 02
The Governor-General, former Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth, apologises to abused
woman: The West Australian, Mar 2 2002, p 8
Guidelines to handling non-marital carnal activity of
Church workers:
www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/nonmarital.htm
Perpetrators' List of Australian campaigner Clare Pascoe Henderson: www.pip.com.au/~chenderson/perplist.htm
Broken Rites Australian support group for those abused in a Church setting: Box 163,
Rosanna, Vic 3084; 02 4990 9030 http://brokenrites.alphalink.com.au
Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA), Australian
general support group, i.e., not specifically targeted on abuse in a Church setting (most perpetrators are family, acquaintances, teachers, etc.): Box 361, Cessnock,
NSW 2325; 1300 657 380, 02 4990 9030
www.asca.org.au
PARKINSON, Patrick (Prof), author of Child Sexual Abuse and the Churches;
Sydney,
www.law.usyd.edu.au/staff/p_parkinson_pub.htm
WANT TO HELP? FAITH PURIFICATION PROGRAMME, 46 Cobine Way, Greenwood (a suburb of Perth), WA, 6024, Australia.
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