Grab Sex, Priests, And Secret Codes: The Catholic Churchs 2,000 Year Paper Trail Of Sexual Abuse Imagined By Thomas P. Doyle Contained In Manuscript

informative, and a necessary read for all, especially loyal Catholics, Bought this for my husband for his birthday three years ago, The author of this book was our pastor from, the years before the priest scandal 'broke', He told us it was going to happen before it did, He and my husband are good friends and he was instrumental in my husband becoming Catholic, For anyone captivated by the movies Spotlightor Doubt, for anyone concerned about this phenomena of abusive priests, for anyone who has suffered at the hands of a clerical authority, I cannot recommend this book enough.


While at first glance, the title of the book looks so sensational as to be a farce, I have to admit that it is remarkably apt and comprehensive in describing the subject matter.
For within its pages is damning evidence confirming that for hundreds of years, the Catholic church has at best, been struggling to address the problem of abusive priests and at worst, entirely complicit in perpetuating the abuse of children.


While mostly clinical in its dissection of Vatican statutes and canons related to the issue, there are many points where powerful anecdotes are shared.
And indeed, there is a small section at the back devoted solely to publishing letters from church officials attempting to prevent transfers of offending priests and make their superiors aware of the moral failings of these men.


All in all, a comprehensive look at the forces that make this a systemic issue, and what steps can be taken to prevent it from continuing.
A sad and sordid tale of the church more interested in protecting it's good name and avoiding scandal, than in the welfare of it's members.
Three authors, all Catholic, take the church to task for protecting sexual abusers and revictimizing the victims.
Using church documents and letters most subpoenaed for civil court cases the authors make a convincing case against the bishops of the Catholic Church in the US for failing to uphold civil and canon law and allowing vulnerable children to be abused.
It is estimated that ten per cent of Catholic priests in the US are guilty of abusing children sexually.
Priests who abused children were transferred from one unsuspecting parish to another and victims were asked to forgive the abuse and keep it secret to avoid scandal and bad publicity for the church.
Surely there must be a special place in hell for the people who were involved, not only in the abuse, but also the attempted coverup.
Lovely read the book and really despise all religious institutions that "need" insane wealth to cover their fat asses



I could not finish this book.
I expected a history of the failure of the rule of priestly celibacy, but that was really only the first chapter.
The remainder of what I read was a repetitive and poorly edited discussion of civil and cannon law.
I gave up about halfway through, If you want to understand how and why priest sexual abuse of children occurs, you should read this book.
Could barely get through it, Not because of the subject matter, but because of the tedium, I do love reading about the corruption of the Catholic church though, It's so fun! I appreciate the historical foundations of child sexual abuse that this book discusses, and explanations of canonical law, and what the responsibility would be of bishops and church hierarchy are towards priests who molest and rape children.
This very detailed exposition makes it clear that the extent of clergy sex abuse, and ongoing coverup by the Church hierarchy, is even worse and more pervasive than media accounts portray.


The authors advocate a method of wholesale reform, perhaps even reformation, so that the Church may heal, clergy and laiety alike.
They come at it as devout Catholics who love their faith and Church, and want healing for all.


I do not feel much hope for their mission, given the sickness entrenched in the Church, and perhaps I don't feel the rotten, broken institution should survive.
But that's not my call as an outsider,

It's a very tough, painful read, but I'm glad I read it, It seemed important to me to understand how a huge system could create, aide and protect so many criminals, and yet consider itself to be on the moral high ground.


If you happen to be Catholic and want to preserve your Church, I think it's a mustread book.
Deceiving title but useful book anyway

This book is a collection of chapters that do not follow an apparent order or try to reach an specific reader.
However, some information is useful and illustrative besides of being so tedious, The title is a very Comerctial one designed to catch the reader but what you find is a collection of scholarly written chapters that seemed drafts or exerts from different books.
The main point about the systemic nature of the sexual scandals is poorly described, although is mentioned.
The book is boring and hard to read, The chapterth and the letters to me were absolutely unnecessary, I think the book is a promising draft of a text that should be read by every catholic.
The Problem is with Catholic Belief Itself

There are two separate issues here, One is the disgusting pedophilia itself, Separately, why is it that the Catholic Church cannot police this abuse It is this second question that I would like to explore in this review.
The first question is easily answered by looking at the cloistered character structure of the Catholic clergy and the systematic repression of sexuality which gives rise to unhappy, neurotic men responsible for aggression, sadism and a desire for for domination in place of normal sexual gratification.
It is this repressive system that in some cases attracts, and in some cases creates, these neurotic and sadist men.


As to the pedophilia itself, the twisted logic of the Church claims that homosexuality, not the fact of unnatural male celibacy, is the cause of child molestation.
In reality, the condition which most encourages sexual molestation of children is the prohibition of normal and natural sex with adults.


The Catholic Church cannot curb or police sex abuse due to its own theology, The problem is that Church doctrine states that once a priest is ordained, it does not matter whether he sins for he can still administer the sacraments because the powers conferred on him by ordination exist independently of his fallen human nature.
He is in persona Christi, not the fallen human being, when administering the sacraments, Once he is ordained, it does not matter what sins he commits, he is still conferred with the power to administer the sacraments.
The people who most believe in this absurd doctrine are those in the hierarchy of the Church precisely because they believe this and other absurd Church doctrines that are too long to list here.
In other words, the metaphysical nature of the ordination overrides the physical nature of the molestation, This doctrine is as absurd in principle as it is wretched in practice,

When viewed from this distorted frame of reference, it is easy to see why

the Catholic Church is incapable of ending the abuse, toto caelo, and how it is actually rational within the destructive logic of Church doctrine for the leadership to protect its pedophile priests.
In the guise of in personsa Christi the priest performs the miracle of transubstantiation on every occasion that he performs a mass.
Under the spell of such thinking, atrocities, no matter how debauched, ultimately outrage nothing because there is no real death.
The true crime is to believe this nonsense, The true miracle is that anyone does believe this, .