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Publisher's description: In Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited, therapist and former priest, A.W. Richard Sipe takes to task the Catholic Church's policy of mandatory celibacy as well as its overall doctrine on human sexuality. Based on his extensive knowledge and background in the field, Sipe removes the cloak of secrecy surrounding celibacy, providing a fascinating exploration of the practice in church history, along with frank and realistic...
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Phoenix Bishop Thomas O'Brien-a center of controversy since being charged with covering up sexual misconduct by priests in his diocese and, shortly thereafter, with leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident-is emblematic of the troubles that have bedeviled the Catholic Church. In this ABC News program, correspondent Ron Claiborne presents the O'Brien case to illustrate how the Church is coming to grips with wrongdoing attributed to its clergymen...
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This book is an indictment of Roman Catholic teachings on homosexuality and sexuality. Inspired by The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, Mark Jordan's controversial examination of homoeroticism in American Catholic culture, this book examines how the current crisis of clerical abuse affects and stigmatizes gay priests.
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Weigel situates the current crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance in the context of recent Catholic history. He analyzes the Church's failure to embrace the great spiritual promise of Vatican II, resulting in the gradual but steady surrender to contemporary culture he dubs "Catholic Lite." He exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and, ultimately, among the bishops who failed...
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Sex, Lies, and the Priesthood is a documentary biopic exploring the journey of A.W. Richard Sipe -- from the priesthood to becoming an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church. Sipe was a former Benedictine monk and Catholic priest, trained as a psychotherapist to deal with the mental health problems of the clergy. Over the years he worked with the records of over six thousand patients and recognized a pattern of behavior within the Church that eventually...
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"Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012 is a thoughtful, multidisciplinary commentary. Beginning when the scandal first broke in Boston in 2002, this first-of-its-kind work offers a wide range of reflections from those in the know, both complimentary and critical of the Church, on what has been done in the ensuing ten years to stop and prevent such abuse. Through the contributions here, readers can delve into the world...
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Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, the author presents the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's; probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long; and what drew this scandal into the public arena.
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"A charismatic bishop with a secret life ... His con-man cleric sexual toy ... A monsignor who founded a youth camp that he used as a stalking ground for boys ... A financial house of cards erected by a priest-entrepreneur, using diocesan funds to operate a de facto bank ... A powerful family whose patriarch helped introduce a system of censorship that affected American movies for thirty years ..." "Welcome to the diocese of Santa Rosa, California....
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In the autumn of 1984, Jason Berry first heard reports of the sexual abuse of boys by a priest in rural Louisiana. He didn't want to believe it. As a Catholic, he loved the church. As an expectant father, he was horrified for the abused children. But as a reporter, he wanted to find out what had happened. And what he found was that the case in Louisiana was by no means unusual. In fact, between 1984 and 1992, four hundred Catholic priests in North...
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"Hyperbolic and misleading coverage of recent scandals has created a public image of American priests that bears little relation to reality, and Andrew Greeley's Priests skewers this image with a systematic inside look at American priests today." "Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homo-sexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests,...
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Recent studies revealed that over the last 50 years, approximately four percent of Catholic priests were responsible for molesting some 10,000 victims-the majority of whom were young people. After reporting on these studies' findings, this ABC News program scrutinizes a diocese in California to examine what exactly has happened there. Although sexual misconduct involving priests has been public knowledge for some time now, this research data exposes...
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