Greased Palms
Paul Moses August 31, 2011 - 9:09am
Render Unto Rome
The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church
Jason Berry
Crown, $25, 432 pp.
The John Jay College report on the “causes and context” of the sexual-abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church frequently takes the news media to task. Journalists focused on bishops who were slow to respond to victims, “perpetuating the image” that the bishops as a group were unresponsive, according to the report. The media mistakenly referred to priest-abusers as pedo-philes; wrongly blamed celibacy; and focused on sexual abuse by priests even though it is a small percentage of all abuse...
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