Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (Paedophilia & Catholicism) - Softcover

The Investigative Staff Of The Boston Globe, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316776750 ISBN 13: 9780316776752

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2003

Synopsis

With this expose, "The Boston Globe" aims to deliver the most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and emotional manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its long history of sexual abuse secret. The case of Father John Geoghan, who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and whose 130 victims have been awarded $30 million, has dominated news headlines. The 2000 related civil suits pending against the Church are just the tip of the iceberg. With the same incisive reportage that broke the scandal wide open, "The Boston Globe"'s team of expert investigative reporters also provides important analyses of what's at stake and what this "crisis of faith" means for Catholics everywhere.

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Review:

The fulest account to date of the egregious priestly and episcopal mistakes, sins, and crimes that occurred at the epicenter of what almost immediately became a national crisis."

"This book is more than a religious and journalistic morality play for modern times. It's a classic example of what serious, long-form investigative reporting and dedicated community service by the press can accomplish."

"What we are now calling the Catholic Church scandal began with a court document that could have been buried in a sea of legal papers had it not been for a team of reporters from the Boston Globe.... The Globe's work, both in the stories that began appearing in January and in this book, is extraordinary."

"The Boston Globe investigative team have recast the Globe's findings into compelling, fresh, flowing narrative....BETRAYAL belongs on the bookshelf of those seriously concerned about the governance of clerical sexual abusers."

"The investigative staff of the Boston Globe has done the Catholic Church an enormous favar. It has forced reform on a reluctant Catholic hierarchy.... God bless the Globe, says I. They were the good guys, the guys in the white hats as opposed to the bad guys in the red hats. Thank heaven they won."

"If journalism is the first draft of history. BETRAYAL gives present readers and future historians a good start."

About the Author:

The investigative staff of the Boston Globe received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for its reporting on the crisis in the Catholic Church. The book was written by Boston Globe reporters Matt Carroll, Kevin Cullen, Thomas Farragher, Stephen Kurkjian, Michael Paulson, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, and Walter V. Robinson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0316776750
• ISBN 13: 9780316776752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300