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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer
Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four
Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony,
attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,
and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of
the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated,
tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry
delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its
tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death,
and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of
diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience
despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry
orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder
Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor
William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine,
an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister
Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the
1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his
life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured
profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of
the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as
people dance when they bury their dead.
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
Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic
Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner's "Vows of Silence "follows
the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to
the Vatican and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on
more than six years of investigative reporting and hundreds of
interviews, this book is a riveting account of Vatican cover-ups.
Both a profound criticism and a wake-up call to reform by two
Catholic writers, "Vows of Silence "reveals an agenda of top-down
control under John Paul II and a hierarchy so obsessed with secrecy
as to spawn disinformation. It is not a book about sexual abuse; it
is a book about abuse of power, throughout the Vatican.
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer
Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four
Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony,
attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,
and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of
the city in microcosm-a city legendary for its noisy, complicated,
tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry
delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its
tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death,
and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of
diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience
despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry
orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder
Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor
William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine
Sedella, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition;
to Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist
of the 1960s; to Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade
his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured
profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of
the beloved city, famous the world over for the mysterious rituals
as people dance when they bury their dead.
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