San Diego Union-Tribune
By Sandi Dolbee
RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR
May 4, 2006
Four years after the Catholic abuse scandal became part of the national conversation, a priest and two former priests have teamed up on a new book detailing what they say is a trail of violations and denial going back for centuries.
“Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes,” argues that the sexual abuse of minors “has been denied and hidden by bishops and popes who have consistently acted in a conspiratorial manner to prevent instances of abuse from becoming publicly known, especially to law enforcement authorities.”