An investigative look into cases of sexual abuse of boys by Catholic priests profiles the families and children who are struggling to regain faith and secure justice; the church officials struggling to cover up the scandal; and the abusive priests.

Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Berry, Jason

Religion & Spirituality

University of Illinois Press

"Up from the Cradle of Jazz" is an intimate history of New Orleans music during the last 45 years. It describes the piano playing of Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Huey "Piano" Smith and Dr John; the singing of Irma Thomas, Little Richard, Aaron Neville and Lee Dorsey; the compositions and performances of Allen Toussaint, Guitar Slim, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, The Meters and The Neville Brothers. From smoky bars and nightclubs to the open air revelry of Mardi Gras, this work aims to be the definitive story of the music of contemporary New Orleans. Jason Berry is the author of "Amazing Grace: with Charles Evers in Mississippi"; Jonathan Foose, a musician and producer, co-produced, with Berry, the television documentary of the same title as this book, and Tad Jones is a researcher at Tulane University.

Up From The Cradle Of Jazz

Arts & Photography

Jones, Max

JONATHAN

Foose, Tad

Music

Da Capo Press

Descripción del libro en una línea: Los autores tratan el caso de los miles de sacerdotes católicos que han abusado de multitud de niños, adolescentes y mujeres en América y Europa. El título del libro alude, metafóricamente, a los votos de pobreza, castidad y obediencia que juran seguir los miembros de las órdenes religiosas dentro de la iglesia católica. El voto de silencio no sólo es indicativo del abuso de poder por parte de los propios perpetradores, sino del Vaticano, que ha hecho caso omiso de los reclamos de cientos de víctimas y, por el contrario, ha otorgado un espaldarazo a personajes como el padre Marcial Maciel, fundador de Los Legionarios de Cristo y quien desde la década de los cuarenta, por lo menos, ha estado envuelto en acusaciones de abuso sexual. En la mejor tradición del gran periodismo estadounidense, El Legionario de Cristo mezcla dos géneros con gran fortuna: el reportaje y el ensayo periodístico. Ejemplo de ello son la multiplicidad de fuentes, así como una gran cantidad de entrevistas con los protagonistas de la historia, rigor en la precisión de los datos y una prosa que linda constantemente en el aliento literario.

El Legionario de Cristo (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Plaza y Janés.

Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church

Random House]

Between 1984 and 1992, Jason Berry's even handed reporting has turned up more than 400 priests and brothers in North America who have molested youngsters. With a novelist's touch that has won him two religious press awards, Berry defines the enormity of the problem with scholarship, compassion, and the poet's ability to find a balance.

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.

Crown

Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II

Renner, Gerald

Simon&Schuster

Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner's Vows of Silence follows the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to the Vatican -- and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on more than six years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews, this book is a riveting account of Vatican cover-ups and the tumult they have caused in the church worldwide. Both a profound criticism and a wake-up call to reform by two Catholic writers, Vows of Silence reveals an agenda of top-down control under John Paul II and a hierarchy so obsessed with secrecy as to spawn disinformation. Vows of Silence is not a book about sexual abuse; it is a book about abuse of power, throughout the Vatican.
The book cuts between the life story of Father Tom Doyle, who sacrificed a diplomatic career with the Vatican to seek justice for sex-abuse victims, and Father Marcial Maciel, an accused pedophile and founder of the militaristic religious order, the Legion of Christ. One of the most mysterious and powerful men in the Catholic Church, Maciel has built a network of priests, lay people, and elite prep schools in more than twenty countries, using the Legion as a fundraising machine to position himself as a favored figure of John Paul II. 
In addition to accusations against Maciel of sexual abuse and of using Legion money for his own extravagant lifestyle, many ex-Legionaries claim that the order uses mind-control techniques to isolate seminarians and even priests from their families. And yet, because he enjoyed the protection of Pope John Paul II and members of the Roman Curia, charges against Maciel for sexual misconduct -- all of which he denies -- were blocked in the Vatican court system.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with Father Doyle and with ex-Legionaries who filed a canonical suit against Maciel, as well as interviews with Vatican insiders and an array of sources in Mexico, Ireland, Canada, and Australia, the authors provide a penetrating account of a hierarchy directly in conflict with its followers. With keen insight and scrupulous reporting, Vows of Silence is a powerful narrative that chronicles the church's struggle between orthodoxy and reform -- going straight to the heart of one of the world's largest power structures.

History

World

Free Press

Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner’s Vows of Silence follows the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to the Vatican and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on more than six years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews, this book is a riveting account of Vatican cover-ups. Both a profound criticism and a wake-up call to reform by two Catholic writers, Vows of Silence reveals an agenda of top-down control under John Paul II and a hierarchy so obsessed with secrecy as to spawn disinformation. It is not a book about sexual abuse; it is a book about abuse of power, throughout the Vatican.

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholicism

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