Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church

279 Pages·2007·2.52 MB·English

by  Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea

Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims
The Sexual Abuse Crisis and The Catholic Church

Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims
The Sexual Abuse Crisis and The Catholic Church
Edited by
Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea
Virginia Goldner
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Contents
Preface: From the Bayou to Boston: History of a Scandal xi
Mary GailFrawley-O’Dea
1 Introduction: The Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis: Gender, 1
Sex, Power, and Discourse
VirginiaGoldner
I: Predatory Priests
2 Abusive Priests: Who They Were and Were Not 21
Mary GailFrawley-O’Deaand VirginiaGoldner
3 Priests Who Sexualize Minors:Psychodynamic, 35
Characterological, and Clerical Considerations
Gerald E.Kochanskyand Murray Cohen
4 A Love Addiction: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with an 59
Offending Priest
AndreaCelenza
II: Victims and Survivors: The Clinical Picture
5 Can You Imagine? 73
Mary GailFrawley-O’Dea
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6 Failed “Fathers,” Boys Betrayed 85
Richard B. Gartner
III: Victims and Survivors: Survivor’s Stories
7 Surviving What I Know; Living Is What I Am Learning 103
Kathleen M.Dwyer
8 Severed Selves andUnbridgedTruths 111
Father M.
9 Sexual Abuse, Spiritual Formation, and Psychoanalysis 121
Tom Lewis
IV: The Institutional Church and The Pastoral Church
10 How Could It Happen? An Analysis of the Catholic 139
Sexual Abuse Scandal
The Reverend James Martin, S. J.
11 Clericalism and Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse 147
The Reverend Thomas P. Doyle, O. P.
12 Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Episcopal and Roman 163
Catholic Clergy
The Reverend Anne Richards
13 A Protestant Approach to Clergy Sexual Abuse 189
The Reverend Laurie J. Ferguson
14 Women Priests and Clergy Sexual Misconduct 195
The Reverend L.MurdockSmith
15 The Priestly Phallus: A Study in Iconography 203
Mary Gordon
CONTENTS ix
16 Celibacy and Misogyny 213
Gillian Walker
17 The Confusion of Priestly Secrets 231
Mark D. Jordan
About the Contributors 249
Author Index 253
Subject Index 257