Book Reviews and Commentaries

Book Reviews and Commentaries

• Abbe Pierre, the Making of a Saint by Laetitia Cherel and Marie-France Etchegoin Mountain Democrat Commentary by Phillippe Huguen Mountain Democrat

• Jesus Wept: We Should Weep Too by Philip Shenon Commentary by Leslie C. Griffin Verdict

• Torrent of Grace: A Catholic Survivor’s Healing Journey after Clergy Abuse, by Mark Joseph Williams Commentary by Chris Damian National Catholic Reporter

• Breaking the silence by Myriam Commentary by Rodolfo Soriano-Núñez The Los Ángeles Press

• Torrent of Grace: A Catholic Survivor’s Healing Journey After Clergy Sexual Abuse

  by Mark Williams and Jennifer Wortham

  Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.

• My Fathers: Letters of Healing on a Quest for the Truth by Len Prazych

  Commentary by Len Prazych lenprazych.com

• Cardinal Sin: Challenging power abuse in the Catholic Church by Brian Devlin Reviewed by Sara Scarlett Willson Where Peter Is

• A Walk to the End of the Earth by Jeffrey Kendall Reviewed by Jason Koon The News Herald

• Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally Reviewed by Laurie Hertzel Burlington Star Tribune

• Greatest Fraud Never Told: False Accusations, Phony Grand Jury Reports by David F. Pierre, Jr. Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• The Quilt of Hope: A Warm Patchwork of Devotional Thoughts by Mary Tatem Commentary by Laura Mayers Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Glimmers of Grace: Moments of Peace and Healing Following Sexual Abuse by Faith Hakesley Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Safe Space by Nicholas Harrison Reviewed by Dani Penaloza Delta Optimist

• A Letter to the Pope: The Keeper of the Nest by Jennifer Wortham, Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Glimmers of Grace by Faith Halsley Reviewed by Sara Larson In Spirit and Truth

• Healing the Wound of Sexual Abuse: Reading the Bible with Survivors by Elaine A. Heath Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• The Corruption of Boys; Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy by Dyan Elliott Reviewed by Thomas P. Doyle   National Catholic Reporter  (there are 2 of theses together[deete 1 od them)

• Il giorno del giudizio (The Day of Judgment) Reviewed by Massimo Faggioli Commonweal

• A History of Loneliness By John Boyne Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles’ in Catholicism

• Abuse and Cover-Up: Refounding the Catholic Church in Trauma by Gerald A. Arbuckle Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Abuse of Trust: Healing from Sexual Abuse by Allen Hebert and Denae Heber Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Acts of Recovery: The Story of One Man’s ongoing healing from sexual abuse by a priest by Michael Hoffman Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis by Jane F. Adolphe ,Ronald J. Rychlak, et al Reviewed by Thomas J. Nash The Catholic World Report

• Comunicar y participar: La comunicación institucional en la Iglesia y su relación con la tutela y promoción del bien común (Communicate and participate: Institutional communication in the Church and its relationship with the tutelage and promotion of the common good), by Fr. Benjamin Clariond, LC Commentary by Jim Fair Zenit

• Forbidden Fruit: Life & Catholicism In Contemporary Ireland by Declan Henry Commentary by Anne HailesThe Irish News

• Glimmers of Grace: Moments of Peace and Healing Following Sexual Abuse by Faith Hakesley Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Healing the Church: Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis by Sr. Nuala Kenny, MD Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Hurting in the Church: A way Forward for Wounded Catholics by Father Thomas Berg Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• In the Closet of the Vatican by Frédéric Martel Reviewed by Donald Cozzens National Catholic Reporter

• John Patrick Grace: Bishop's book sets clerical abuse scandals in context by John Patrick Grace Herald Dispatch

• Letter to a Suffering Church: a bishop speaks on the sexual abuse crisis by Bishop Robert Barron Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.Profiles in Catholicism

• Papal Policies on Clerical Sexual Abuse: God Weeps by Jo Renee Formicola Reviewed by Father Mark White Profiles in Catholicism

• Plus jamais ça! (Never again!) by Pierre Vignon and François Jourdain Commentary by Gauthier Vaillant La Croix International

• SOC 2020 by Jon Witt Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Still Unhealed by Nuala Kenny, S.C. Reviewed by James F. Keenan America

• The Altar Boys: new questions about suicides of clergy abuse survivors should spark another inquiry by Martin LaMonica The Conversation

• The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy by Melissa Davey Commentary by Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter

• The Corruption of Boys; Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy by Dyan Elliott Reviewed by Thomas P. Doyle   National Catholic Reporter

• The Corruption of Boys; Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy by Dyan Elliott Reviewed by Thomas P. Doyle   National Catholic Reporter

• The Pedophile Priests by William Wallance Reviewed by Benziga

• The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson Reviewed by Jenny Shank America

• Toward Healing and Renewal: Sexual Abuse of Minors Held at the Pontifical Gregorian University Edited by Charles J. Scicluna, Hans Zollner. and David John Ayotte Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.Profiles in Catholicism

• What is a Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander Reviewed by Julia Duin Get Religion

Film Reviews and Commentaries

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