Betrayal The Crisis in the Catholic Church

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• ISBN13: 9780316776752
• ISBN10: 0316776750
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-03
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

Brought completely up to date in this new paperback edition, this groundbreaking book provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. Encompassing the story in its entirety--as it has unfolded throughout the U.S. and throughout the Church hierarchy--BETRAYAL brings into focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon innocent children, and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes. - One of the most resonant and influential works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate. - Astonishing court documents, secured through the efforts of Globe journalists, are reproduced in an appendix. - An essential, insightful, helpful text for the Church leaders, both lay and clergy, who have already begun charting a new course for the Catholic Church in America. - The hardcover edition of BETRAYAL is now in its fourth printing with more than 50,000 copies in print.

Author Biography

The writers of this book, and the reporters principally responsible for the Globe's coverage of the scandal, are Matt Carroll, Kevin Cullen, Thomas Farragher, Stephen Kurkjian, Michael Paulson, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, and Spotlight Team Editor Walter V. Robinson. The coverage and the book were overseen by Deputy Managing Editor for Projects Ben Bradlee Jr.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	3	(8)
Father Geoghan	11	(20)
Cover-Up	31	(23)
The Predators	54	(24)
The Victims	78	(20)
Explosion	98	(21)
The Decline of Deference	119	(22)
His Eminence	141	(23)
Sex and the Church	164	(19)
The Struggle for Change	183	(22)
Afterword	205	(12)
Appendix: The Documents	217	(45)
Notes	262	(13)
Acknowledgments	275	(2)
Index	277