Sacrilege

Author: Leon J. Podles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979027994
Category : Child sexual abuse by clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sacrilege explores the deep roots of the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal, revealing its full depth and breadth. In horrifying yet necessary detail, former federal investigator Leon Podles surveys the full extent of the damage, showing how victims were failed by bishops, laity, therapists, police, courts, press, and even popes. Examining the history behind today's headlines, Dr. Podles reveals how centuries-old theological errors encouraged blind submission to hierarchy, by making obedience to authority the highest virtue. He also shines a light on the new theological errors, popularized since Vatican II, that glorify every type of sexual expression--including pedophilia. Sacrilege will prove an essential resource for all those concerned with the history and future of Catholicism.

Sacrilege (Shapevine)

Author: Hugh Halter
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441237461
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
It is safe to say most Christians do not live like Jesus did, have the same influence on people he had, or draw even the slightest curiosity from the on-looking world. Jesus's ability to woo people to him and win their hearts was directly related to how he challenged their assumptions about religion. He not only gave them a unique, personal way to follow him but also showed them how to participate with him in his mission. Sacrilege helps readers rethink what it really means to become like Jesus. It exposes the patterns of thinking that have held the church hostage for years and inspires readers to rethink the way they understand Scripture, family, spiritual formation, conversion, church, sin, and more.

Sacrilege (Giordano Bruno, Book 3)

Author: S. J. Parris
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007484062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling series The third book in S. J. Parris’s bestselling, critically acclaimed series following Giordano Bruno, set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I

Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition

Author: Eamon Duffy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472909178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
Eamon Duffy publishes a book on the broad sweep of English Reformation history, including a study of Late Medieval religion and society.

Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence

Author: William J. Connell
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary. His punishment was severe, even for the times, and the crimes with which he was formally charged, gambling, blasphemy and attempted suicide, did not normally warrant the death penalty. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence unveils a series of newly discovered sources concerning this striking episode. The authors show how the political and religious context of Renaissance Florence resulted both in Rinaldeschi's death sentence and in the creation by the followers of Savonarola of a new religious devotion, in the heart of the city, commemorating the event. -- Amazon.com.

The Sacrilege of Alan Kent

Author: Erskine Caldwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description

Strange Revelations

Author: Lynn Wood Mollenauer
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271029153
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people&—including Louis XIV&’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court&—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King&’s capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel. In the fall of 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, head of the Paris police, uncovered a plot to poison Louis XIV. La Reynie&’s subsequent investigation unveiled a loosely knit community of sorceresses, magicians, and renegade priests who offered for sale an array of services and products ranging from abortions to love magic to poisons known as &“inheritance powders.&” It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name. The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court. Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals. While the exercise of state power during the ancien r&égime was quintessentially visible&—ritually displayed through public ceremonies&—the affair exposes the simultaneous presence of other imagined and real sources of power available to the Sun King&’s subjects: magic, poison, and the manipulation of sexual passions. Highly entertaining yet deeply researched, Strange Revelations will appeal to anyone interested in the history of court society, gender, magic, or crime in early modern Europe.

SPQR III: The Sacrilege

Author: John Maddox Roberts
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429908300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
When a sacret woman's rite in the ancient city of Rome is infiltrated by a corrupt patrician dressed in female garb, it falls to Senator Decuis Caecilius Metellus the Younger, whose investigative skills have proven indispensable in the past, to unmask the perpetrators. When four brutal slayings follow, Decius enlists the help a notorious and dangerous criminal. Together, they establish a connection between the sacrilege and the murders, and track the offenders from the lowest dregs of society to the prominent elite of the upper class, finding corruption and violence where Decius least expects it.

The Great Sacrilege

Author: James Wathen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983356103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
A critical essay on the Novus Ordo Missae of Pope Pail VI with particular reference to its moral impact and ramifications.

Miracles & Sacrilege

Author: William Bruce Johnson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802094937
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 541

Book Description
Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it.