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Book Sin against the Innocents

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas G. Plante Ph.D.
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2004-03-30
  • ISBN : 0313057796
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Sin against the Innocents written by Thomas G. Plante Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from a variety of fields join forces to show what fuels a most horrific violation of trust—sexual abuse by priests—and how the Church and church structure play a role in this abuse. This riveting work includes chapters by a former Director of the premiere U.S. facility treating clergy who are sexual offenders, by a Jesuit psychologist who authored the largest study of clergy sexual abusers ever completed, and from a Vatican Correspondent explaining the issues as seen by the Vatican. The text also includes an opening chapter by Michael Rezendes, a Boston Globe investigative reporter and member of the Spotlight Team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of sexual abuse by clergy. A statement by the Executive Director of SNAP, the national support group for victims of clergy sexual abuse, is also included. This is the first book that gathers experts from a variety of fields to offer thoughtful, objective perspectives regarding what we know about sexual abuse by clergy and what we can do to solve the problem. Attention is given not only to psychological aspects of both the perpetrators and victims, but also to canon law, clergy misconduct review boards, the sexual/celibate agenda of the Church, the challenges for treatment facilities, and barriers to resolution that exist within the Roman Catholic Church.

Book The Innocents

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  • Author : Francesca Segal
  • Publisher : Hachette Books
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 1401342779
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Innocents written by Francesca Segal and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune; she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her community--a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam's role in a warm, inclusive family he loves. But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York, she unsettles Adam more than he'd care to admit. Ellie--beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independent--offers a liberation that he hadn't known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying close to home?

Book The Innocents Abroad

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Innocents Abroad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Twain
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-09-18
  • ISBN : 3375119577
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Book The Writings of Mark Twain  The innocents abroad

Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain The innocents abroad written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Innocents Abroad  Or  The New Pilgrim s Progress

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrim s Progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Innocents Abroad  Or  The New Pilgrims  Progress

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrims Progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Writings of Mark Twain  pseud    The innocents abroad   v  3 4  A tramp abroad   v  5 6  Following the equator   v  7 8  Roughing it   v  9  Life on the Mississippi   v  10 11  The gilded age  by Mark Twain and C D  Warner   v  12  The adventures of Tom Sawyer   v  13  The adventures of Huckleberry Finn   14  Pudd nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins   v  15  The prince and the pauper   v  16  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s court   v  17 18  Personal recollections of Joan of Arc   v  19  Sketches new and old   v  20  Tom Sawyer abroad  Tom Sawyer  detective  and other stories   v  21  The American claimant  and other stories and sketches  v  22  How to tell a story and other essays   v  23  The man that corrupted Hadleyburg  and other essyas and stories   v  24  The  30 000 bequest  and other stories   v  25  Christian science  with notes containing corrections to date

Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain pseud The innocents abroad v 3 4 A tramp abroad v 5 6 Following the equator v 7 8 Roughing it v 9 Life on the Mississippi v 10 11 The gilded age by Mark Twain and C D Warner v 12 The adventures of Tom Sawyer v 13 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn 14 Pudd nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins v 15 The prince and the pauper v 16 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s court v 17 18 Personal recollections of Joan of Arc v 19 Sketches new and old v 20 Tom Sawyer abroad Tom Sawyer detective and other stories v 21 The American claimant and other stories and sketches v 22 How to tell a story and other essays v 23 The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essyas and stories v 24 The 30 000 bequest and other stories v 25 Christian science with notes containing corrections to date written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The innocents abroad  or the new pilgrims  progress  being some account of the steamship Quaker City s pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land

Download or read book The innocents abroad or the new pilgrims progress being some account of the steamship Quaker City s pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Matthew   s Account of the Massacre of the Innocents in Light of its Reception History

Download or read book Matthew s Account of the Massacre of the Innocents in Light of its Reception History written by Sung J. Cho and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sung Cho addresses the seeming contradiction of Herod the Great's massacre in Matthew 2:16-18, questioning why such a tragedy had to occur, why it was included in the good news of Jesus, and what connection it has to ancient prophecies. In creating a reception history of the Massacre of the Innocents, Cho progresses through two millennia worth of interpretation and depiction to highlight key works for discussion. Beginning with a close reading of Matthew 2:16-18, Cho moves to analyse depictions of the tragedy in the Early Patristic Tradition, from the sixth century to the early modern period, and thus to the present day; complete with an examination of visual interpretations of the massacre. Cho's examination provides a positive step to understanding the depths of human suffering with the help of many diverse perspectives.

Book Mark Twain  The Innocents Abroad  Roughing It  LOA  21

Download or read book Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad Roughing It LOA 21 written by Mark Twain and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1984-12-01 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe—to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and “frauds,” and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. Out of the book emerges the first full-dress portrait of Mark Twain himself, the breezy, shrewd, and comical manipulator of English idioms and America’s mythologies about itself and its relation to the past. Roughing It (1872) is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain’s actual and imagined adventures when he escaped the Civil War and joined his brother, the recently appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His accounts of stagecoach travel, Native Americans, frontier society, the Mormons, the Chinese, and the codes, dress, food, and customs of the West are interspersed with his own experiences as a prospector, miner, journalist, boon companion, and lecturer as he traveled through Nevada, Utah, California, and even to the Hawaiian Islands. Mark Twain’s passage from tenderfoot to old-timer is accomplished through a long series of increasingly comical episodes. The plot is relaxed enough to accommodate some immensely funny and random character sketches, animal fables, tall tales, and dramatic monologues. The result is an enduring picture of the old Western frontier in all its original vigor and variety. In these two works, never before brought together so compactly, Mark Twain achieves his mastery of the vernacular style. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Book Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church

Download or read book Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church written by Marie Keenan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders. Linking the personal and the institutional, researcher and therapist Marie Keenan locates the problem of child sexual abuse not exclusively in individual pathology, but also within larger systemic factors, such as the very institution of priesthood itself, the Catholic take on sexuality, clerical culture, power relations, governance structures of the Catholic Church, the process of formation for priesthood and religious life, and the complex manner in which these factors coalesce to create serious institutional risks for boundary violations, including child sexual abuse. Keenan draws on the priests' own words not to excuse their horrific crimes, but to offer the first in-depth account of a tragic, multi-faceted phenomenon. What emerges is a troubling portrait of a Church in crisis and a series of recommendations that call for nothing less than a new ecclesiology and a new, more critical theology. Only through radical institutional reform, Keenan argues, can a more representative and accountable Church emerge. Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform.

Book The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium

Download or read book The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium written by Philip Michael Forness and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late antique and early medieval Mediterranean was characterized by wide-ranging cultural and linguistic diversity. Yet, under the influence of Christianity, communities in the Mediterranean world were bound together by common concepts of good rulership, which were also shaped by Greco-Roman, Persian, Caucasian, and other traditions. This collection of essays examines ideas of good Christian rulership and the debates surrounding them in diverse cultures and linguistic communities. It grants special attention to communities on the periphery, such as the Caucasus and Nubia, and some essays examine non-Christian concepts of good rulership to offer a comparative perspective. As a whole, the studies in this volume reveal not only the entanglement and affinity of communities around the Mediterranean but also areas of conflict among Christians and between Christians and other cultural traditions. By gathering various specialized studies on the overarching question of good rulership, this volume highlights the possibilities of placing research on classical antiquity and early medieval Europe into conversation with the study of eastern Christianity.

Book Innocent Civilians

Download or read book Innocent Civilians written by C. McKeogh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice.

Book International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders

Download or read book International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders written by Douglas P. Boer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice and Research provides the first truly global perspective on the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. Presents a comprehensive overview of current theories and practices relating to the assessment and treatment of sex offenders throughout the world, including the US, Europe, and Australasia Covers all the major developments in the areas of risk assessment, treatment, and management Includes chapters written by internationally respected practitioners and researchers experienced in working with sexual offenders such as Bill Marshall, Ruth Mann, Karl Hanson and Jayson Ware