Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church
Book Details
- Publisher : Analytic Press
- Published : 2007
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 24624
- ISBN 13 : 9780881634242
- ISBN 10 : 0881634247
Reviews and Endorsements
The contributors, all experts on the issues involved in clerical sexual abuse, comprise psychoanalysts, biblical scholars, clergy, historians, victim/survivors, and cultural critics. They include novelist and critic Mary Gordon; Episcopal priest Anne Richards; Catholic priest Tom Doyle; psychoanalysts Richard Gartner, Andrea Celenza, and Adrienne Harris; historian and queer theorist Mark Jordan; biblical scholar Gillian Walker; survivor activist Kathleen Dwyer, and many others. Setting polemics to the side, "The Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church" provides a sober and sobering analysis of the interlacing historical, doctrinal, and psychological issues that came together in the sexual abuse scandal. It is mandatory reading for all who seek thoughtful, informed commentary on a crisis long in the making and yet to be resolved.