A Gospel of Shame

by Bruni, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780060522322
• ISBN10: 0060522321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
PART I	1	(62)
Judgment Day	3	(23)
Revelations	26	(22)
An Inevitable Crisis	48	(15)
PART II	63	(88)
Suffer the Children	65	(13)
False Idols	78	(19)
Silenced Cries	97	(14)
Spurning the Messengers	111	(20)
Innocence Lost	131	(20)
PART III	151	(100)
Cardinal Sins	153	(24)
Unspoken Covenant	177	(23)
Bitter Fruits	200	(20)
A Path to Redemption	220	(15)
Amazing Grace	235	(16)
Afterword	251	(15)
Notes	266	(39)
Index	305