A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church
A Nonfiction book. Mortal sins.Reviewing a religious book is not what I like to do; therefore...
The relentless crescendo of revelations of sexual abuse in the nation's Catholic churches has rocked the nation. Just how widespread is child sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy? 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. The answers, however, turn out to be infuriating and heartbreaking, difficult to accept but impossible to dismiss. The authors thoroughly document dozens of cases across the country and reveal how this heinous abuse of trust has been tacitly sanctioned by the Church's silence.
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780060522322 / 60522321
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Mortal sins.Reviewing a religious book is not what I like to do; therefore we will go for a summary and a bit of point of view. This book present lots of accusations to priests and the church hierarchy that instead of being compassionate, are interested and involved in concealment. One of the cases that were discussed in this book was... Opening salvo in the war against pedophile Catholic priests. You'd think that the events in the early 1990s would have alerted people. but then it all happened again in Boston about 10 years later.One of the more disturbing things to read was how some parishes banded together to decry actions taken against pedophile priests, in the...
