Betrayal
Brought completely up to date in this new paperback edition, this groundbreaking book provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. Encompassing the story in its entirety—as it has unfolded throughout the U.S. and throughout the Church hierarchy—BETRAYAL brings into focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon innocent children, and the cabal of senior Church officials...
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Brought completely up to date in this new paperback edition, this groundbreaking book provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. Encompassing the story in its entirety—as it has unfolded throughout the U.S. and throughout the Church hierarchy—BETRAYAL brings into focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon innocent children, and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes.- One of the most resonant and influential works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate.- Astonishing court documents, secured through the efforts of Globe journalists, are reproduced in an appendix.- An essential, insightful, helpful text for the Church leaders, both lay and clergy, who have already begun charting a new course for the Catholic Church in America.- The hardcover edition of BETRAYAL is now in its fourth printing with more than 50,000 copies in print. Irish Times A riveting, tragic read.
ForewordIntroduction31Father Geoghan112Cover-Up313The Predators544The Victims785Explosion986The Decline of Deference1197His Eminence1418Sex and the Church1649The Struggle for Change183Afterword205AppThe Documents217Notes262Acknowledgments275Index277
\ From Barnes & NobleThe Catholic Church is now facing one of the more dire crises in its long history: sexual abuse committed by priests, and the subsequent cover-up of that abuse by cardinals and bishops. Get a handle on the headlines with this explosive exposé by the staff of The Boston Globe.\ \ \ \ \ Peggy NoonanOnly one newspaper, the Boston Globe, had the persistence and courage to tackle this story...\ — Wall Street Journal\ \ \ Bill Keller...this sordid story has had to be dragged from the...archdiocese, mostly by the...investigative reporting of the Boston Globe.\ — New York Times\ \ \ \ \ Buffalo News...a classic example of what serious, long-form investigative reporting and dedicated community service by the press can accomplish...\ \ \ \ \ Andrew GreeleyThe investigative staff of The Boston Globe has done the Catholic Church an enormous favor. It has forced reform on a reluctant Catholic hierarchy. It has revealed to the Catholic laity the ignorance, arrogance, stupidity, and insensitivity of the hierarchy. It has bared a pattern of sinfulness that has been a cancer eating at the church and has forced the bishops to excise it. If it had not been for the Globe's investigation, the bishops would never have enacted the ''Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People'' at their Dallas conference in June. Much less would they have appointed a lay supervisory board to assure compliance in the respective dioceses...God bless the Globe, says I.\ —Boston Globe\ \ \ \ \ Irish TimesA riveting, tragic read.\ \ \ \ \ Buffalo NewsThis 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. In an era of declining journalistic standards, commercialization and cost-cutting, the Boston Globe showed that one newspaper can still rise above legal obstacles and institutional roadblocks.\ \ \ \ \ St. Louis Post-DispatchThe Boston Globe investigative team, led by Deputy Managing Editor Ben Bradlee Jr. (son of the Watergate-era Washington Post editor), have recast the Globe's findings into compelling, fresh, flowing narrative...The victims' stories of the permanent, and often lifelong, damaging effects that sexual abuse inflicted on them is wrenching but never lurid reading. It might be required reading for concerned Catholics in discussion groups at parishes where a priest has been removed for these criminal acts. Parishioners' self-pity might vaporize. This book belongs on the bookshelf of those seriously concerned about the governance of clerical sexual abusers...\ \
