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The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis - Reform and Renewal in the Catholic Community (Paperback)
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The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis - Reform and Renewal in the Catholic Community (Paperback)
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The story of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests has sent
shock waves around the nation and will not fade from consciousness
or the news. We ask, "How could this happen?" And then we ask, "How
could the Catholic Church let this continue for so long -- in
seeming silence and duplicity?" Paul R. Dokecki, a community
psychologist at Vanderbilt University, an active Catholic, and a
former board member of the National Catholic Education Association,
investigates the crisis not only with the eye of an investigative
reporter, but with the analytical skills and training of a
psychologist as well. Moreover, he lays the foundation for
reasonable and practical reform measures.Through the scandal in the
Archdiocese of Boston as well as the earlier, if less well known
but momentous, case in the Diocese of Nashville, Dokecki reports on
and analyzes what is ultimately an abuse of power -- not only by
the clergy but by church officials. As distasteful as these
instances may be, they are compelling reading, enlightened by the
author's abilities to contextualize these events through the lenses
of professional ethics, the human sciences, and ecclesiology.
According to Dokecki, these and other instances of clergy sexual
abuse reveal a systemic deficiency in the structure and the nature
of the church itself, one that has prevented the church from
adequately dealing with its own worst sins.Dokecki may shine a
spotlight into the church's dark corners -- but he does so in the
service of enlightenment, calling the church back toward the vision
of Vatican II and the spirit of Pope John XXIII -- toward a greater
transparency, a more open and participatory governance in the
church, and for a greatlyexpanded role for the people of God who
make up the church. It is in this way, Dokecki believes, the church
will be better able to keep the innocent children of the church
safe from harm.
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