The book is essentially a reprise of the articles the Globe's team produced in the first five months of 2002. Much less would they have appointed a lay supervisory board to assure compliance in the respective dioceses.

If it had not been for the Globe's investigation, the bishops would never have enacted the 'Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People' at their Dallas conference in June. It has bared a pattern of sinfulness that has been a cancer eating at the church and has forced the bishops to excise it. It has revealed to the Catholic laity the ignorance, arrogance, stupidity, and insensitivity of the hierarchy. It has forced reform on a reluctant Catholic hierarchy. In fact, the investigative staff of The Boston Globe has done the Catholic Church an enormous favor. Here as well is a vivid account of the ongoing struggle, as Catholics confront their Church and call for sweeping change.'Betrayal' details a stunning pattern of clerical sexual abuse and coverup, as one unsettling example follows anotherīetrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Churchīy the investigative staff of The Boston GlobeĮtrayal' is a terrible, horrible, awful book.Ī Honduran cardinal, who a lot of people think will be the next pope, has accused the American media (this paper included) of persecuting the Catholic Church as did the Nazis, the Communists, Nero, and Diocletian. and around the world shocked, angry, and confused. Here is the trail of 'hush money' that the Catholic Church secretly paid to buy victims' silence-deeds that left millions of the faithful in the U.S. Here is the truth about the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon innocent children and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes.

Here are the devastating revelations that triggered a crisis within the Catholic Church. The story behind this groundbreaking book-one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate-has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Author: The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globeĭetails: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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