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Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Mary Frawley-O´dea
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Description for Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. This book examines factors internal to the Church and outside of it that drew this scandal into the public square and kept it there. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFFE1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences to the Church, and more than 4,700 priests since 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually victimizing minors. The Church has paid over one billion dollars to adults who claim to have been sexually abused by priests, and there is no end in sight to these lawsuits. Celibacy, homosexuality in the priesthood, the infiltration into the priesthood of secular moral relativism, too much liberalism in the ... Read more
Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences to the Church, and more than 4,700 priests since 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually victimizing minors. The Church has paid over one billion dollars to adults who claim to have been sexually abused by priests, and there is no end in sight to these lawsuits. Celibacy, homosexuality in the priesthood, the infiltration into the priesthood of secular moral relativism, too much liberalism in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515469
SKU
V9780826515469
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About Mary Frawley-O´dea
Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, was the only mental health professional to address the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at their seminal 2002 Dallas meeting on the sexual abuse crisis, and she was one of the clinicians speaking about sexual abuse to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men that year. Frawley-O'Dea is co-author of Treating the ... Read more
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a relentless probe of the crisis Jason Berry