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Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal
Thomas Dunne
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
416 pages
ISBN: 0312594895
EAN: 9780312594893
Kindle: B009LRWV8C
Hardcover / e-Book
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An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent
the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who
fought for justice In the mid-1980s a dynamic young
monsignor assigned to the Vatican’s embassy in Washington
set out to investigate the problem of sexually
abusive priests. He found a scandal in the making,
confirmed by secret files revealing complaints that had been
hidden from police and covered up by the Church
hierarchy. He also understood that the United States
judicial system was eager to punish offenders and those who
aided them. He presented all of this to the American
bishops, warning that the Church could be devastated by
negative publicity and bankrupted by its legal liability.
They ignored him.
Meanwhile, a young lawyer listened
to a new client describe an abusive sexual
history with a priest that began when he was ten years
old. His parents' complaints were downplayed by Church
officials who offered them money to go away. The
lawyer saw a claim that any defendant would want to
settle. Then he began to suspect he was onto something
bigger, involving thousands of priests who had abused
countless children while the Church had done almost nothing
about it. The lawsuit he filed would touch off a legal war
of historic and global proportions.
Part history,
part journalism, and part true-crime thriller, Michael
D'Antonio's Mortal Sins brings to mind landmark books
such as All the President’s Men, And the Band Played
On, and The Informant, as it reveals a long and
ferocious battle for the soul of the largest and oldest
organization in the world.
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