| Description |
ix, 278 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Value Analytic Perspective -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 1. One Clergy Sexual Abuser's Story -- The Diocesan Setting -- The McKeown Story Begins -- The Nature of McKeown's Sexual Abuse -- The Church Responds -- McKeown Leaves the Active Priesthood -- McKeown Is Finally Arrested -- The McKeown Case Enters the Broader Social Domain -- Victims' Parents File Multimillion Dollar Lawsuits -- Blaming the Victim? -- Further Legal Maneuvering -- The Boston Scandal Enters Public Consciousness -- Questions and Issues Attendant to the McKeown Case -- Chapter 2. Clergy Sexual Abuse in the World -- Moral Crisis or Moral Panic? -- The Journalistic Shot Heard Around the World -- Entering the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- A Comparative Look at the Clergy Sexual Abuse System in Nashville and Boston -- The contexts -- The priests -- Internal church response -- External church response -- The laity -- Chapter 3. Professional Ethics and the Clergy Child Sexual Abuse System -- The Ethics of Human Development and Community -- The Use and Abuse of Power: Professionals Having Sex with Clients -- The Third Position and the Community of Persons -- Historical Perspectives On the Third Position Theory of Community -- Empowerment -- The Institutional Church's Management of Clergy Sexual Abuse -- Chapter 4. Human Science Perspectives on the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- The Organizational Culture of the Catholic Church -- The Ideology of the Catholic Church -- Authoritarianism or Authority? -- The Structures of the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- Structures facilitating abuse perpetration -- Structures influencing organizational response -- Structures conducive to victim and laity empowerment -- Psychological Sense of Community in the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- Conclusions from Human Science Analysis of the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- Chapter 5. Ecclesiological Perspectives on the Clergy Sexual Abuse System: The Context of Reform -- The Church's 2002 Efforts to Reform the Clergy Sexual Abuse System: Processes -- and Outcomes -- Cardinal Law secretly meets with Pope John Paul II -- U.S. cardinals summoned to Rome -- U.S. bishops meet in Dallas -- The Vatican responds, the U.S. bishops revise -- U.S. bishops meet in Washington, D.C. -- The Canon Law Society of America interprets the U. S. bishops' essential norms -- Concerns over process -- The Church's Understanding of Itself -- Vatican II reforms related to the clergy sexual abuse system -- Models of the church -- Chapter 6. Toward Reforms Addressing and Preventing Clergy Sexual Abuse -- Rationale for Reforms Addressing the Clergy Sexual Abuse System -- Diversity, Justice, Equality, and Participative Decision Making in -- the Pursuit of Community -- The Need for Granting Discretion to Church Officials vs. the Lack of the Public's -- Trust in Church Officials -- Toward the Restoration of Trust in the Church Through Developing More Transparent, -- Open, and Participatory Forms of Church Governance -- Reform at the parish level -- Reform at the diocesan level -- Reform at the national church level -- Reform at the universal church level -- Notes -- References -- I. Sources Related to the McKeown Affair -- II. Court Documents Related to the McKeown Affair -- III. Sources from Newspapers, Periodicals, and Organizations -- IV. Books, Chapters, Journal Articles |
| Summary |
"The story of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests has sent shock waves around the nation and will not fade from consciousness or the news. We ask, "How could this happen?" And then we ask, "How could the Catholic Church let this continue for so long - in seeming silence and duplicity?" Paul R. Dokecki, a community psychologist at Vanderbilt, an active Catholic, and a former board member of the National Catholic Education Association, examines the crisis not only with the eye of an investigative reporter, but the analytical skills and training of a psychologist as well. Moreover, he lays the foundation for reasonable and practical reform measures - toward a greater transparency, a more open and participatory governance in the church, and for a greatly expanded role for the people of God who make up the church. It is in this way, Dokecki believes, the church will be able to keep the innocent children of the church safe from harm."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (248-264) and index |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Discipline.
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Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior.
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Child sexual abuse by clergy.
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Church renewal -- Catholic Church.
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| LC no. |
2003019464 |
| ISBN |
158901006X paperback alkaline paper |
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