It was also on May 7 that a Boston television station , WBZ , aired portions of a taped telephone conversation in which Frank Fitzpatrick , an insurance adjuster and private detective , confronted James R. Porter who years earlier ...
A parishioner of Fr. Cosgrove's said he was " a good fellow , a decent Christian man . " But she could not understand how Fr. Cosgrove ended up in a gay sauna and said , while shaking her rosary beads at the reporter , " He couldn't ...
Sacrilege explores the deep roots of the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal, revealing its full depth and breadth.
Flynn , Archbishop Harry J. , 132 , 141 , 161–62 Fodor , Gene , 197 Foley , Fr. James , 102 fondling , 3–5 ... 28 , 202–3 , 205 Heaps , Bishop John , 81 Hebert , Paul , 1-2 Heed , Peter W. , 200-201 Hendrickson , Paul , 118 Henry ...
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church, a collection of groundbreaking articles edited by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea and Virginia Goldner, eschews such one-size-fits-all theorizing.
This powerful book includes the author’s personal account of sexual abuse by a nun and her years of struggle to recover.
The book presents the views of leading academics and psychologists, but also allows the church to speak. First-person insights from victims are shared, as in a chapter written by a woman abused by a clergy member as an adolescent.
And why hasn't the Catholic church done more to stop it? In A Gospel of Shame, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalists Elinor Burkett and Frank Bruni provide the answers to these questions and more.
They have higher rates of endocrine disorders than age-matched child sexual offenders or the population at large ... The broad consensus in the psychological literature is that Roman Catholic clergy sexual offenders represent an ...
This book, by one of the UK's leading lawyers in the field, is a shocking exposé of Catholic sex abuse cases in England over the past forty years.