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	Sacrilege By Leon J. Podles Crossland Foundation October 1, 2007 http://www.crosslandfoundation.org/sacrilege.htm UNITED STATES — For the first time, an author skilled in investigations with a knowledge of theology and history surveys and analyzes the crisis of the largest institution in the world. Most authors flinch when it comes to describing the full horror of the sexual abuse that priests have committed in the Catholic Church. Sacrilege does not flinch. It lets victims tell what they went through and how their bodies and souls suffered. Sacrilege exposes the deep roots of the Catholic sexual-abuse scandal as well as its depth and breadth. Sacrilege makes us see what popes, bishops, laity, police, courts, and therapists tolerated in order to preserve the reputation of the Church. It calls to count the dissenting theologians and the psychologists who tried to normalize adult-child sex, but does not spare the traditional Catholic mindset that demanded unquestioning obedience to clerical authority. Sacrilege will prove an essential resource for laity, clergy, psychologists, criminologists, lawyers, sociologists, and all those concerned with the history and future of Catholicism.
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