- Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st Illinois Paperback Ed edition (1 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0252068122
- ISBN-13: 978-0252068126
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,331,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[Has] the same narrative excitement as Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men. There is even a mystery whistle-blower, equivalent to Deep Throat, whom Berry dubs "Chalice" and who meets a sorry fate in the denouement." -- The Nation "Berry is the rare investigative reporter whose scholarship, compassion, and ability to write with the poetic power of Robert Penn Warren are in perfect balance... [T]he church itself could not have asked for a more fair-minded instrument of its own indictment." -- USA Today "Lead Us Not into Temptation is frequently as compelling as a novel, but it is also a thoughtful, restrained examination of an explosive subject that in less skilled hands could easily have been exploited and sensationalized." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer ADVANCE PRAISE "The greatest scandal in the history of religion in America." -- From the foreword by Andrew M. Greeley
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"Jason Berry's "Lead Us Not into Temptation" put a national spotlight on the issue of clergy sex abuse of children and has been used in newsrooms across the country. Berry takes us through the lives of traumatized victims and their parents, torn by loyalty to the church, into the machinations of bishops and church lawyers. At root, this is a story about politics, how sexual conflicts within clerical culture have compromised the power structure of the church. This new paperback edition of Berry's investigation includes an updated introduction that takes the scandal into the Vatican."
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The picture is bigger than it looks, 7 Aug 2000
By Cathleen M. Walker "geminiwalker" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Paperback)
This book is amazing, tempered, and extremely credible. Jason Berry has taken a very difficult, emotional subject and made it readable, discernable, and a powerful statement about what happens when we fail to question authority.
Of particular interest to me was his reference to the House of Affirmation in Worcester, Mass., a self-proclaimed "treatment center" created and defined of the church, by the church, and for the church...an institution that self-destructed from its own corruption. The church determined whether or not a priest was "sick", what the "sickness" was, and whether or not they were "cured" and, therefore, "trustworthy". The "church" then decided when they were to be released to work again - to Catholic elementary schools, colleges and universties, Catholic Charities and surrounding parishes and Catholic camps.
When I originally wrote this review, information on The House was hard to find on the net. It's not now. Google it. And then hold them accountable! Our entire population continues to suffer from the ramifications of decisions made by the Catholic Church in the 1960s - children who grew up to become parents and others who acted out their trauma on others for generations. Not all did. Some were able to find credible treatment of their own and are speaking out. There are many, many more who passed their traumatization on, and/or became addicted to drugs and alcohol, lies, secrets and denial and/or self-destructed entirely. We cannot address this problem until it has been acknowledged in its entirety. Jason Berry opens the door. May it remain open until all the cobwebs have been cleared.
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DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, 1 Feb 2001
By RUTH KRIEGER - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Paperback)
Jason Berry proves to be a true defender of the faith, an upstanding Catholic, unafraid to confront the moral decay running rampant in the Church today. Every statement is documented, proving its truth. This book is not an attempt to discredit the Church, but a compassionate understanding of the troubled Church and a serious attempt to make the Church confront its problems. Berry is not an author with a bone to pick. He is a sincere Catholic interested in seeing his Church live up to its full potential, eliminating views which lead "into temptation".
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The protection of an institution at the expense of children., 22 Nov 1998
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This review is from: Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Paperback)
My family was from Lafayette and we often visited the area during the years that this book talks of. I even met one priest who was involved. Not only does this book give a clear picture of how community values ( which in any other situation would have been good ones) worked to protect the perpetrators of abuse, but it also shows how the self protective rules of the catholic church came down hard on the side of secrecy and evasiveness. I recall one of the more frightening passages talked about how canon law put the well being of the church above any incident. Unfortuneately the incident(s) was the rape of numerous children.
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