Author: Wilfred Arvizu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500533731
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In a series of recollections, writer Wilfred Arvizu, an original member of the young mariachi group, tears back the curtain and provides an inside look on how he and others dealt with a pedophile priest who was at once a self-confessed agnostic and not-so-self-confessed alcoholic and possible bi-sexual.
Author: Lauretta A. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435701755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Our story chronicles the lives of three women from their childhood through adulthood. From the priest who told battered women to go home and satisfy their husbands to the one who embezzled church funds, our heroines struggle to find the honorable ministers and vanquish the demons posing as righteous clergy. Though their faith is tested, they end up finding not only those ministers they are seeking, but much more through their friendship.
Author: Father Paul Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982233177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Bless Me Father For They Have Sinned is a must read for anyone who wants to catch a more intimate look at the infrastructure of the Catholic Church. Father Paul Roberts offers us a historically relevant, yet compassionate and humorous, account of the inner workings of the oldest corporation in the world. This memoir introduces us to a man's life journey, from childhood, through the preparations for the seminary, the pitfalls on the spiritual path, to his maturation and commitment to entering the ancient order of priests. Bless Me Father For They Have Sinned does not shy away from the day-to-day encounters with sensual temptations, boundary violations, and alcohol abuse. The reader has a ringside seat as these men and women grapple with mental health issues, struggle with questioning power structures, instigate changes to training and rehabilitation protocols, and try to bring their venerable church into alignment with a contemporary modus operandi.
Author: Maggie Renaldi
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469790262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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It is not only young boys that Roman Catholic priests abuse; these dysfunctional, deceitful predators, who use God as an excuse for their behavior, emotionally damage many unsuspecting adult women. Bless Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: Confessions of a Priest’s Mistress is the story of one woman’s involvement with a Roman Catholic priest and how it changed her life. Just as the male victims are coming forward to tell their stories, there can be no closure for Maggie Renaldi until this story is told. During a vulnerable period in her life, Maggie meets Father Brendan O'Reilly and embarks upon a clandestine affair. Father O'Reilly's fear of commitment and his "I love you, go away" behavior threaten to destroy their friendship and their love, until Maggie intervenes and O'Reilly seeks therapy to save himself. Unfortunately, he chooses a priest-psychotherapist who adds more guilt and shame. From seminaries that require young men to beat themselves bloody to bring the flesh into subjection to bishops who play politics, from power-hungry nuns to superiors who profess "the party line," Bless Me, Father, For I Have Sinned is also a graphic picture of church politics and hypocrisy. Maggie Renaldi is not her real name. All the names as well as the places have been changed to protect the innocent (as well as the guilty).
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553351286
Category : Horror comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Featuring stories on Bradbury's favorite subject--dinosaurs--this spectacularly illustrated fourth volume includes newly-illustrated stories for graphic novel fans.
Author: Richard Pierce
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145200935X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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The day breaks gloomy outside Saint Patrick's Cathedral where a solitary gunman waits for the services to end. Inside the majestic church 2,000 worshippers join New York Senator Frank Connolly and his wife, Caroline, being honored for her contributions to the Archdiocese. When the mass ends Connolly goes to confession before leaving the Cathedral - where he is met and assassinated by James Murphy. Except there is no James Murphy. His name and identity are false, his history beyond the past ten years as a janitor, untraceable, his motive never discovered. Tried and convicted, Murphy refuses to speak until, four years later - and two days before his scheduled execution - Murphy gives his last confession to the prison chaplin. The confession so startles the priest, bound by the Church's restrictions on revealing the words of the penitent - the Sacramental Seal - he races to Saint Patrick's to seek the advice of his former pupil, Dominic Cardinal Enicerlico, a street tough raised in Little Italy who has risen to one the highest and most powerful positions in the Church . Having extracted the information from the chaplin, the Cardinal risks excommunication by soliciting the aid of his best friend - retired police detective Dean Napolitano - to prevent the execution by discovering why Murphy committed murder. What Dean learns is a secret maintained through coercion, bribes and murder, committed by people who will stop at nothing to keep Murphy's words from being disclosed. Anyone aware of the secret faces death, Dominic and Dean not only face death but their own demons before the secret can be disclosed.
Author: Julia Villegas Phelps
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465361375
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Although there is a great deal of attention given – quite rightly so – to pedophile priests, my experience with clergy sexual abuse was also a nightmare. It started out by my being raped as a teenager by a priest who I thought I could trust and then being coerced into having an affair with him for fear of losing my children. A skilled manipulator, especially of vulnerable teenagers and young women who had challenges in their lives, we all thought a priest could help us overcome our particular situations. Once he gained my trust and pretended to be a friend, he set about a path to manipulate me toward a path to a living hell that put my spiritual health and soul in danger. I saw him as a man of the cloth, a man of God who would help me and my children without expecting anything in return. Little did I know I was not his fi rst victim, nor would I be his last, lured by his promises to leave the church for me, and by his word that God himself had sent him to save us.
Author: Robert A. Zammit
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452512027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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A young Italian boy's broken heart leads him into the heart of the Catholic Church in 1950s Australia, but there he begins a journey of betrayal, murder, and damaged faith.
Author: Louis McCarter
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532031572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Father Mark Sutton, a Catholic priest in Houston, is astonished when a man confesses to the murder of a woman because she was a prostitute. However, Catholic canon law prohibits a priest from divulging what he is told in the confessional booth. Father Sutton is troubled, but it makes no difference because he cannot see the man nor can the man see him. He only knows the man has a Boston accent. Three weeks later, the same voice confesses to murdering another prostitute. When Father Sutton learns that an innocent man has been charged with the second murder, he is confronted with a dilemma—allow an innocent man to be convicted or break the confessional seal. He turns to Hannah Fisher, the Harris County Chief Felony Prosecutor to whom he was once engaged, for advice. Bruno Kilpatrick, who has recently moved to Houston from the Boston area, fears that Father Sutton will break the confessional seal and be able to identify him as the murderer. He becomes obsessed with permanently silencing Sutton. What is the advice of Sutton’s former lover? Will he break the confessional seal? Will Bruno Kilpatrick add Sutton to the list of those he has murdered?
Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
