Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Personal Preface xiii 1 From the Bayou to Boston: A Developing Pattern 1 2 Surviving Soul Murder 17 Teachings and Traditions Implicated in the Scandal 3 Suffering, Submission, and Sadomasochism 39 4 Embodied and Gendered Souls 57 5 Degraded Sexual Desire and Theologized Sex 73 6 Celibate Sexuality and Sexually Active “Celibates” 87 7 Homosexuality: Secreted and Scapegoated 109 The Catholic Hierarchy 8 Where Were the Pastors? 131 9 Clerical Narcissism 151 Priests, Laypeople, and Culture 10 Perpetrators, Priests, People in the Pews 173 11 The Secret Is Revealed 191 viii Perversion of Power Epilogue: Is Everything Old New Again? 217 Notes 221 Bibliography 267 Index 305 ...