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Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences to the Church, and more than 4,700 priests since 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually victimizing minors. The Church has paid over one billion dollars to adults who claim to have been sexually abused by priests and there is no end in sight to these lawsuits.

Celibacy, homosexuality in the priesthood, the infiltration into the priesthood of secular moral relativism, too much liberalism in the Church since Vatican II, damaging rollback of Vatican II reforms by conservative prelates--all have been suggested as causes for the crisis. This book, however, begins with the premise that, because the pattern of abuse and cover-up was so similar across the world, there is something fundamentally awry with Church traditions and power structures in relationship to sexuality and sexual abuse.

Specifically, in chapters on suffering and sadomasochism, bodies and gender, desire and sexuality, celibacy and homosexuality, the author concludes that aspects of the Catholic theology of sexuality set the stage for the abuse of minors and its cover-up. Frawley-O'Dea also analyzes the American bishops' lack of pastoral care and tendency towards clerical narcissism--the belief that the needs of the hierarchy represent the needs of the wider Church--as central factors in the scandal. She balances this criticism with a discussion of the backgrounds of the bishops presiding over the crisis and the challenges they faced in their relationships with the Pope and Vatican officials.

Drawing on twenty years of clinical experience, she imagines the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's, and she probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long. Finally, Frawley-O'Dea examines factors internal to the Church and outside of it that drew this scandal into the public square and kept it there.

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Publié par	Vanderbilt University Press
Date de parution	12 mars 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780826592224
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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P E R V E R S I O N S E X U A L A B U S E I N T H E C A T H O L I C C H U R C H o f P O W E R M A R Y G A I L F R A W L E Y - O ’ D E A

Perversion of Power Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

Perversion of Power

Sexual Abusein the Catholic Church

Mary Gail rawley-O’Dea

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To My Family

Dennis, Mollie, Sally, and MartHa

Contents

1 2

3 4 5 6 7

8 9

10 11

AckNowLEdgmENtS Ix PErSoNàL PrEfàcE xIII

From thE Bàyou to BoStoN: A DEVELopINg PàttErN 1 ŚurVIVINg ŚouL MurdEr 17

Teacings and Traditions Implicated in te Scandal

ŚuErINg, ŚubmISSIoN, àNd ŚàdomàSochISm 39 ÉmbodIEd àNd GENdErEd ŚouLS 57 DEgràdEd ŚExuàL DESIrE àNd EoLogIzEd ŚEx 73 CELIbàtE ŚExuàLIty àNd ŚExuàLLy ActIVE “CELIbàtES” 87 omoSExuàLIty: ŚEcrEtEd àNd ŚcàpEgoàtEd 109

he Catolic Hierarcy

WhErE WErE thE PàStorS? 131 CLErIcàL àrcISSISm 151

Priests, Laypeople, and Culture

PErpEtràtorS, PrIEStS, PEopLE IN thE PEwS 173 E ŚEcrEt ïS REVEàLEd 191

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ÉpILoguE: ïS ÉVErythINg OLd Ew AgàIN?

otES 221 BIbLIogràphy ïNdEx 305

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Acknowledgments

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