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The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses

Author : James T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199350124
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses written by James T. O'Reilly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual abuse of children and teens by rogue priests in the U.S. Catholic Church is a heinous crime, and those who pray for a religious community as its ministers, priests and rabbis should never tolerate those who prey on that community. The legal disputes of recent years have produced many scandalous headlines and fuelled public discussion about the sexual abuse crisis within the clergy, a crisis that has cost the U.S. Catholic Church over $3 billion. In The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, two eminent experts, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers, draw on the lessons of recent years to discern the interplay between civil damages law and global church-based canon law. In some countries civil and canon law, although autonomous systems of law, both form part of the church's legal duties. In the United States, freedom of religion issues have complicated how the state adjudicates both cases of abuse and who can be held responsible for clerical oversight. This book examines questions of civil and criminal liability, issues of respondeat superior and oversight, issues with statutes of limitations and dealing with allegations that occurred decades ago, and how the Church's internal judicial processes interact or clash with the civil pursuit of these cases.

Holding Bishops Accountable

Author : Timothy D. Lytton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674068351
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Holding Bishops Accountable written by Timothy D. Lytton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevalence of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and its shocking cover-up by church officials have obscured the largely untold story of the tort system's remarkable success in bringing the scandal to light. The lessons of clergy sexual abuse litigation give us reason to reconsider the case for tort reform and to look more closely at how tort litigation can enhance the performance of public and private policymaking institutions.

Clergy Sexual Abuse Litigation

Author : Jennifer M. Balboni
Publisher : Firstforumpress
ISBN 13 : 9781935049371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Clergy Sexual Abuse Litigation written by Jennifer M. Balboni and published by Firstforumpress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on cases across the country such as the landmark 2002 lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church.

The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses

Author : James T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199937931
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses by : James T. O'Reilly

Download or read book The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses written by James T. O'Reilly and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal disputes over worldwide, including the U.S., sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, and over efforts by Roman Catholic bishops to conceal clerical misconduct, have produced many headlines and public discussion. However, the precise legal issues involved remain a mystery to most observers. In this study, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers examine the role of canon law in these cases and the interplay between the global church-based law and the laws of individual jurisdictions where criminal actions and lawsuits are brought.

Protecting Your Church Against Sexual Predators

Author : Voyle A. Glover
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780825497384
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Protecting Your Church Against Sexual Predators written by Voyle A. Glover and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many unsuspecting and unprepared churches have been financially and spiritually destroyed by child molestation within the church ministries and the resulting litigation. Written by an experienced lawyer, this handbook provides help to any church dealing with these issues.

Altar(ed) Girl

Author : C.M. Morgan
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452588910
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Altar(ed) Girl written by C.M. Morgan and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's forty-year journey of recovering from childhood clergy sexual abuse.

Seven Deadly Lawsuits

Author : Thomas F. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Deadly Lawsuits written by Thomas F. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written on how to prevent lawsuits not how to fight back, this book is about how clergy, religious professionals, and religious organizations can be educated about the kinds of lawsuits that are typically levied against them. Taylor then shows religious workers how to avoid costly legal involvement. Deadly lawsuits include fraud, defamation, sexual misconduct, clergy malpractice, invasion of privacy, and undue influence.

Act of Faith

Author : Stephen Rubino
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1639371389
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Act of Faith written by Stephen Rubino and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act of Faith: America's longest running criminal conspiracy perpetrated against children By: Stephen Rubino www.actoffaithbook.com About the Book In his debut novel, trial attorney Stephen Rubino takes the reader on an electrifying journey of deceit, intrigue, tragedy, passion and ultimate redemption. At the intersection of the sacred and the profane, Act of Faith dissects the Vatican’s complicity in America’s longest criminal conspiracy perpetrated against children. This multi-generational family saga is richly portrayed through an ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, revealing the secret world of the Vatican’s sheltering of sexual predators to avoid bringing scandal to the faithful. Act of Faith offers an unflinching account of the still emerging sexual abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church and its impact on the survivors and their families across America. The story chronicles the lives of siblings Francis and Elizabeth Natale, who suffer unspeakable psychological damage after being sexually abused by their trusted parish priest. As adults, Francis and Elizabeth become estranged, each hiding their secrets in dangerous double lives. He as a gifted pianist and sexually conflicted Catholic priest, she as a reckless but highly successful trial attorney. After resigning her partnership in a major New York City law firm, Elizabeth sets out to uncover the roots of the abuse scandal and to exact her personal revenge. On a serendipitous road trip across the country, Elizabeth confronts her lifelong demons and forms an unlikely alliance with Father Thomas Atkinson, her long lost high school love who has become a Vatican whistleblower. After a tense reunion with Francis, the trio enters the super-charged environment of high stakes litigation, exposing the Church’s centuries old practice of hiding sexual predators in plain sight from the religious faithful and law enforcement. Together, the trio brings to the courthouse steps the first Federal Civil Racketeering lawsuit against the Catholic Church.

Clergy Sexual Abuse

Author : Claire M. Renzetti
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555538118
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Clergy Sexual Abuse written by Claire M. Renzetti and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together experts primarily from the fields of criminology, criminal justice, law, and social work, but also cultural anthropology and psychology, to analyze clergy sexual abuse from the perspective of their individual disciplines. Contributors examine the latest data and analyses on the scope and impact of clergy sexual abuse, frame the problem in terms of sociological and criminological theories of crime and deviance, explore the social and legal issues the problem raises for the personal and communal life of faith communities, and discuss possibilities for reform, reconciliation, and healing. Covering sexual abuse of both minors and adults, chapters not only focus on the Catholic Church, but also examine Christian faith traditions more generally. The editors' introductory chapter identifies points of agreement and divergence among the essays, develops a coherent overview of the problem, and presents viable solutions to it.

Before Dallas

Author : Nicholas P. Cafardi
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809105809
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Before Dallas written by Nicholas P. Cafardi and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clergy sex abuse scandal and its ongoing fallout have created the greatest crisis in the history of the American Catholic Church. Yet for well over a thousand years, the Church has recognized the problem of clerical abuse of children and has maintained strict canonical punishments for perpetrators, including expulsion from the clerical state. So why did Church leaders favor therapeutic solutions over the provisions of canon law in dealing with decades of abuse? This ground-breaking analysis of the Church?s response to the abuse crisis addresses that very question and engages in a vigorous assessment of the Church?s failures in the light of its own canon law. The author, a civil and canon lawyer, summarizes the history of clerical sexual abuse, from the New Testament era to modern times. He describes the major cases that brought the problem to the forefront in the United States. He goes on to explain why most bishops decided to take the ?therapeutic option? when dealing with abusive priests, rather than subjecting abusers to proper canonical punishments that might have brought the cases to light and resulted in greater sensitivity to the victims themselves. Finally, the author explains what the Church must learn from the abuse crisis.Insightfully written and thoroughly annotated, BEFORE DALLAS will become the accepted reference work on the Church?s legal response to clerical sexual abuse, and an indispensable guide for preventing the tragedy from happening again. It will be essential reading for church historians, canonists, clergy, and all those interested in the future welfare of the Church and her faithful.

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068126
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Lead Us Not Into Temptation written by Jason Berry and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While seminaries, by many accounts, admit an increasing number of homosexuals, women are strictly barred from ministerial roles. The church's time-honored tradition of "avoiding scandal" also backfires. For by the shielding of fallen clerics, Berry shows, the suffering of the abused is often compounded.

Perversion of Power

Author : Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826515476
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Perversion of Power written by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Symposium

Author : Boston College. Law School
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Symposium written by Boston College. Law School and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wounded Souls

Author : Renny W. Hodgskin
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489717102
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Wounded Souls written by Renny W. Hodgskin and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is May 2006 when Monsignor Patrick Nixon becomes the new vicar general and moderator for the Roman Catholic diocese of Renawalla County, California. After praying for strength and guidance, he begins the overwhelming task of concluding the most miserable chapter in diocesan history. Unfortunately, he will not perform his duties with the benefit of the bishops insight, knowledge, and experience, for he is now lying in a coma after suffering a major stroke surely prompted by the stress of hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits. In an effort to combat the serious threat against the Catholic Church, Monsignor Nixon pours over internal records in an effort to understand the financial, legal, and insurance drama surrounding the diocese and its struggle to survive. As he immerses himself in the enormously complex issue, the vicar general is helped by the brilliant and beautiful Bethany Griffin, who uses her experience to strengthen the dioceses risk management capabilities. But when temptation threatens to rob him of his focus, now only time will tell if the vicar general will complete his faithful mission. Wounded Souls shares the suspenseful tale of a Californian vicar general as he attempts to rectify the legal liability caused by clergy sexual abuse litigation.

Pedophiles and Priests

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195145976
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Pedophiles and Priests written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. This study looks at the entire history of this mushrooming scandal, from the first rumblings to the explosion of headlines. -- Provided by publisher.

Betrayal of Trust

Author : Annie Laurie Gaylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877733062
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Betrayal of Trust written by Annie Laurie Gaylor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse

Author : Bill Donohue
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642291781
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse written by Bill Donohue and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work unpacks the history and root causes of the clergy sex abuse scandals in the United States. Building on decades of data and research, author Bill Donohue, who holds a doctorate in sociology, tells the story from a fresh angle and calls us to rethink our assumptions about the Church''s handling of these horrific abuses. The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse challenges many myths about the scandals, demonstrating that the abuse of minors is a problem that haunts virtually every institution—religious and secular—where adults interact with young people. The work also provides compelling evidence of the great progress that the Church has made in preventing abuse, contrary to public perceptions. Indeed, the media, Hollywood, and activist lawyers have poisoned the public mind with tales of old cases, giving the impression that nothing has changed. Donohue investigates at length the central role that homosexuality played in the scandal. While homosexuality does not cause sexual abuse, the prevalence of emotional and sexual immaturity among homosexual clergy explains why they committed most of the molestation. Indeed, all of the educational institutions of the Catholic Church, including the seminaries, have been affected by the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s, and this book explores the pernicious effects of dissent from Catholic sexual morality.