Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal

Author: Michael D'Antonio

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1250034396

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A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 An Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominee An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who fought for justice In the mid-1980s a dynamic young monsignor assigned to the Vatican's embassy in Washington set out to investigate the problem of sexually abusive priests. He found a scandal in the making, confirmed by secret files revealing complaints that had been hidden from police and covered up by the Church hierarchy. He also understood that the United States judicial system was eager to punish offenders and those who aided them. He presented all of this to the American bishops, warning that the Church could be devastated by negative publicity and bankrupted by its legal liability. They ignored him. Meanwhile, a young lawyer listened to a new client describe an abusive sexual history with a priest that began when he was ten years old. His parents' complaints were downplayed by Church officials who offered them money to go away. The lawyer saw a claim that any defendant would want to settle. Then he began to suspect he was onto something bigger, involving thousands of priests who had abused countless children while the Church had done almost nothing about it. The lawsuit he filed would touch off a legal war of historic and global proportions. Part history, part journalism, and part true-crime thriller, Michael D'Antonio's Mortal Sins brings to mind landmark books such as All the President's Men, And the Band Played On, and The Informant, as it reveals a long and ferocious battle for the soul of the largest and oldest organization in the world.

Confronting Scandal
Confronting Scandal

Author: Dr. Erica Brown

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1580235867

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"We can battle insensitivity, immorality, and dishonesty in our lives individually and collectively as a people. We have a wonderful road map in the Torah and its traditions. It is time to think seriously about our reputation in the world and what we can do to enhance it, not because we want to look good but because we want to be good." —from Chapter 6. What should we do when we see other Jews behaving badly? Most Jews are good, upstanding people who live by a strong moral code and follow Isaiah's words to be a light to others. But when Jews in the public sphere make headlines for being caught in scandals, their actions can provoke anger, shame and a sense of betrayal in the larger Jewish community. In this insightful and timely book, Jewish scholar Dr. Erica Brown presents an intentional, disciplined framework to explore the emotions provoked in the Jewish community by reports of Jews committing crime. She proposes that we transform our sense of shame into actions that inspire and sustain a moral culture. Drawing from the Hebrew Bible, Talmud and our centuries-long Jewish commitment to ethics, she outlines ways you can activate and operate your personal moral compass, and shows how you can empower yourself with sacred obligation, responsibility, kindness and knowledge to increase Jewish pride.

The Winterley Scandal
The Winterley Scandal

Author: Elizabeth Beacon

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 148800448X

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In this Regency romance, an Englishman finds himself falling for the daughter of his father’s mistress. As the daughter of wild Pamela Winterley, Eve has always lived in the shadow of scandal. Society watches her every move, waiting for Eve to prove she is just as wayward as her mother . . . Ever since his father’s scandalous affair, Colm Hancourt has lived life on his own terms. But then he comes face-to-face with Eve, the daughter of his father’s mistress! It may have begun with a kiss that set tongues wagging, but could the latest Winterley scandal be the start of something special? A Year of Scandal: a Gentleman For Every Season!

The Catholic Controversy
The Catholic Controversy

Author: St. Francis de Sales

Publisher: TAN Books

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1618908928

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Between 1594 and 1598, a preacher named Francois converted 72,000 Protestants to the Catholic Faith. These are his words. One of the most remarkable and well-documented events in Catholic history began when a young priest, St. Francis de Sales, volunteered to re-evangelize the Calvinists of the Chablais. Finding his preaching forcefully rejected, St. Francis de Sales shrewdly switched tactics and began a written apologetics campaign, posting pamphlets on walls and slipping them beneath doors under the cover of night. His defense of the Faith was so clear and thorough that at the end of four years nearly the entire population of 72,000 had returned to the Catholic Faith! These powerful little tracts are as relevant today as they were in the late 1500s. St. Francis de Sales draws support from Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church to address questions still frequently posed by modern Protestants. Revered as some of the most cogent arguments against Protestantism ever penned; they present a defense of the Catholic Faith that has never been equaled. Now with beautiful new cover, easier to read size, updated typesetting, and the original content. 320 pps PB St. Francis de Sales was one of the most effective Catholic apologists and evangelists of the past five centuries. Undoubtedly, he is the most effective apologist to Protestant Calvinists who has ever lived. Steve Wood (Family Life Center International)

The Catholic Controversy
The Catholic Controversy

Author: Saint Francis de Sales

Publisher: Catholic Way Publishing

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1783794569

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THE CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES — A Catholic Classic! — Includes Over 300 Active Linked Endnotes — Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Publisher: Available in Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-454-6 After being repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to re-evangelize Calvinist Protestants who would not listen to Catholic preaching for fear of reprisals, St. Francis turned to writing leaflets and inserting them into copies of his sermons, which he then posted on walls, slipped under doors and handing to whomever he could. Four years later, almost 72,000 had returned to the ancient Catholic Faith! These tracts have been compiled into a book and given the title The Catholic Controversy. The works are still as fresh and powerful today as they were then, and give some of the most compelling arguments against Protestantism that have ever been written, presenting a defense of the Catholic Faith that in some respects has never been equalled. PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

Sin and Scandal
Sin and Scandal

Author: Carol Storm

Publisher: Blushing Publications

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1645635376

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Two tales of lawless passion and flaming desire by Carol Storm! Crystal and Gold Country girl meets Big City Cop. Innocence plus discipline equals red hot passion! Matt Gold was hunting for a killer when he met Crystal May Snow, a fearless, blue-eyed beauty from the West Virginia hills. Innocent and fiery, tender and defiant, Crystal May is different from any woman he’s ever met before. With a mob war brewing, Matt is determined to keep her safe and make her a lady! But can he tame his crystal-pure golden girl without losing his heart? Diamonds and Moonlight A privileged miss. A mobster’s passion. They’ll risk it all for diamonds and moonlight! Katie Sullivan is through with love. Her first husband died in the final days of World War II, and now the refined, aristocratic Boston beauty is in mourning. But Frankie “Diamonds” Donatello is a ruthless Miami gangster who doesn’t care about the rules of polite society. He seduces Katie with dishonorable intentions and introduces her to passion and absolute submission! But when Frankie’s passion for power puts Katie’s privileged life in danger, can the gambler without a heart take the biggest gamble of all?

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici

Author: Una McIlvenna

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317059328

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Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.

The Scandals of an Innocent
The Scandals of an Innocent

Author: Nicola Cornick

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1460307968

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Miss Alice Lister feels anything but respectable. Bad enough that she is a maid-turned-heiress. Now the insufferably attractive Lord Miles Vickery is certain he can gain her fortune by blackmailing her into marriage-- even though it was his deceitful charm that broke her heart once before. But she's positive the terms of her inheritance will prove an impossible task. After all, what rake could be completely honest for three long months? For his part, Miles finds his newfound frankness invaluable in entangling Alice in positions deliciously unbecoming of a lady. Of course, he doesn't yet know that he's falling hopelessly in love with this formidable innocent...or that he will soon go to impossible lengths to prove himself hers forever....