Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

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221 Notes Personal Preface 1. David France, Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), 335–37, 340–52. 2. Thomas P. Reilly, To the People of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 23 July 2002, www.bishop-accountability.org (accessed 20 December 2005), 38–39. 3. Peter Steinfels, “Inquiry in Chicago Breaks Silence on Sex Abuse by Catholic Priests,” News York Times, 24 February 1992. Chapter 1 From the Bayou to Boston 1. Jason Berry, Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000); Frank Bruni and Elinor Burkett, A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church (New York: Perennial, 2002), 30–31; Investigative Staff of The Boston Globe, Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002), 37–39; Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 3; Garry Wills, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (New York: Doubleday, 2000), 182. 2. The narrative of the Gauthe case presented here is based on Berry, Lead Us Not into Temptation. 3. Berry uses pseudonyms for a number of Gauthe’s victims and their families. The Sagreras are the “Robichauxs” in Berry. Their real names were published in Michael Paulson, “Lessons Unlearned: Church Struggle Pains LA Region Stung by Abuse in the 80s,” Boston Globe, 12 June 2002. 4. Paulson, “Lessons Unlearned.” 5. Berry, Lead Us Not into Temptation. 6. Pat Grossmith, “Allegations Revealed in Manchester Diocese Settlement,” Union Leader, 13 October 2002. 7. Nancy Phillips, “A Past of Hurt, a Mission to Help,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 October 2002. 8. Ellen Goodman, “A New Chapter in Church Tale,” Boston Globe, 8 December 2002. 9. Elizabeth Hamilton and Eric Roth, “A Predator Blessed with Charm,” Hartford Courant, 15 September 2002. 10. Donald Cozzens, Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002), 62; Eugene Kennedy, The Unhealed Wound: The Church, the Priesthood, and the Question of Sexuality (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), xxvii; A. W. Richard Sipe, Sex, Priests, and Power: The Anatomy of a Crisis (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1995), 12, 29; Wills, Papal Sin, 300. 11. Bruni and Burkett, Gospel of Shame, 111–30. 12. Michael Rezendes, “Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years,” Boston Globe, 6 January 2002. 13. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), 6, 7. 14. Mary L. Paine, and David J. Hansen, “Factors Influencing Children to Self-Disclose Sexual Abuse,” Clinical Psychology Review 22 (2002): 271–95; Daniel W. Smith, et al., “Delay in Disclosure of Childhood Rape: Results from a National Survey,” Child Abuse & Neglect 24 (2000): 273–87. 15. Associated Press, “Some Major Settlements in Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Cases,” Salt Lake City National Wire, 6 August 2005. 16. David Finkelhor, Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory and Research (New York: Free Press, 1984), 1–3; Diana E. H. Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books, 1986), 59–74; A. Urquiza and L. M. Keating, “The Prevalence of Sexual Victimization in Males,” in The Sexually Abused Male, vol. 1, ed. Mic Hunter (Boston: Lexington Books, 1990); Gail E. Wyatt, “The Sexual Abuse of Afro-American and White Women in Childhood,” Child Abuse & Neglect 9 (1985): 507–19. 17. Associated Press, “Abuse is No. 1 Reason Teachers Lose Licenses in W. Va.,” Herald-Mail, 17 October 2005. 18. Ibid. 19. “Damning Anglican Sex Abuse Report Revealed,” Australian Broadcasting Company, 31 May 2004. 20. Laurie J. Ferguson, “A Protestant Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse”; Anne Richards, “Clergy Sexual Misconduct in the Episcopal Church”; and L. Murdock Smith, “Women Priests and Clergy Sexual Misconduct.” All of these chapters can be found in Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea and Virginia Goldner, eds. Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims (Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 2007). 21. G. Rosenblatt, “A Rabbi Accused of Sexual Abuse Seeks to Reinvent Himself,” Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 1 October 2004; Charlotte R. 222 Notes to Pages 4–7 Schwab, Sex, Lies, and Rabbis (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2002); J. Wiener, “An End to Denial,” Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 7 September 2001. 22. Associated Press...