In the autumn of 1984, Jason Berry heard reports of the sexual
abuse of boys by a priest in rural Louisiana. As an expectant
father, he was horrified for the children. As a Catholic he
reasoned that even a priest can commit crimes. As a reporter, he
wanted to find out what had happened. In this ground-breaking book,
first published in 1992 and still used in many newsrooms, Berry
exposed a culture of corrosive secrecy in which bishops concealed a
criminal sexual underground. One of Berry's sources accurately
projected $1 billion in church losses by century's end. Lead Us Not
Into Temptation is the masterful narrative of an epic crisis as it
unfolds. The story begins in one Cajun community numbed by the
realization that a single priest abused dozens of children. A brave
weekly newspaper reports that the bishop reassigned more predator
priests, and for its effort finds itself counter-attacked by the
daily press. As church officials sit in silence, lawyers battle
over the price of victims' suffering. As the prosecutor bears down,
Berry finds an eerie church insider who guides him into a
labyrinth. The story moves to the Vatican Embassy in Washington,
D.C., where a secret pedophilia report warns American bishops of
the staggering implications if a forthright policy is not soon
adopted. Yet cases keep surfacing. New York City, Minneapolis-St.
Paul, Chicago, Cleveland, Honolulu, Seattle, New Orleans and in
Canada as Berry unpeels a web of suffering and struggles for
justice. While abusive priests are reshuffled, Berry follows a
Vatican crackdown on liberal theologians. As Vatican officials
attack gays, Berry profiles gay priests and seminarians. Lead Us
Not Into Temptation is as much about journalism as the cover-up
culture the author exposed a decade before The Boston Globe's major
series. In this updated edition, Lead Us Not Into Temptation stands
as a fair and fearless portrayal of the Catholic Church's worst
crisis in centuries. Jason Berry's book stands too as a haunting
affirmation of faith. "The greatest scandal in the history of
religion in America." -- From the foreword by Andrew M. Greeley "
Has] the same narrative excitement as Woodward and Bernstein's All
the President's Men. There is even a mystery whistle-blower,
equivalent to Deep Throat, whom Berry dubs "Chalice" and who meets
a sorry fate in the denouement." -- The Nation "Berry is the rare
investigative reporter whose scholarship, compassion, and ability
to write with the poetic power of Robert Penn Warren are in perfect
balance... T]he church itself could not have asked for a more
fair-minded instrument of its own indictment." -- USA Today "Lead
Us Not into Temptation is frequently as compelling as a novel, but
it is also a thoughtful, restrained examination of an explosive
subject that in less skilled hands could easily have been exploited
and sensationalized." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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