Betrayal of Trust: The Father Brendan Smyth Affair and the Catholic Church

ISBN-10
186023027X
ISBN-13
9781860230271
Series
Betrayal of Trust
Category
Political Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Irish Amer Book Company
Author
Chris Moore

Description

At the end of 1994, the Father Brendan Smyth affair brought shame on the Catholic church in Ireland and led directly to the fall of the Irish government. Television viewers grew to recognise the face of the paedophile priest who was sentenced in Belfast on seventeen counts of sexual abuse of children going back thirty years. Betrayal of Trust is the inside story of the Father Brendan Smyth affair, written by the individual man who, more than anyone else, was responsible for breaking the story: UTV Counterpoint journalist Chris Moore. Betrayal of Trust is part riveting detective story, part disturbing account of crimes against children, as with Chris Moore we follow the trail of the paedophile priest throughout Ireland, in Italy and in America. But most of all it is a book that gives voice to those who were betrayed by a priest and by the religious leaders who shielded him.

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