Table of Contents
Foreword Margaret R. Miles ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Part I Symptoms of the Crisis
1 Priests and Children 3
Scope of the Current Crisis
History of Clergy Abuse of Children
Which Priests Abuse Minors?
2 Crime, Sin, and Sickness 24
Crime
Priest Offenders
Legal Intervention
Sin: Moral Dimensions
Sickness
Treatment Obstacles
Treatment Modalities
Victim Voices
Memories True and False
Church Response
3 Discourse: The Sexual Tower of Babel 44
Need for Discourse
Intuitive Perception
Celibacy Defined
4 Patterns of Celibate/Sexual Adjustment 63
Those Who Profess or Practice Celibacy
Heterosexual Relationships and Behavior Patterns
Sexual Experimentation
Homosexual Relationships and Behaviors
Transvestism
Sexual Abuse of Minors
The Validity of Estimates
Method
Part II Function and Failure
5 System: Function/ Dysfunction 83
The Celibate Difference?
The Physiology of the System in Crisis
Celibate/Sexual Balance
Private and Public Function
Homosexuality
Power: Individual and Systemic
Guilt and Forgiveness: A Dynamic
Women: The Function of Idealization and Denigration
The Secret System
6 Priests and Women 112
Myths About Priests and Women
Code of Sexual Ethics for Priests
7 Priests and Men 131
Homosexualities and the Clergy
Psychological Denial of the Homosocial Structure
The Male Matrix
The System of Secrecy
Developmental Questions and Variations
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Part III The Structure of Crisis
8 The Structure Beneath the Crisis 161
Blame
The Superior Group
Power
Subjugation
Nature and God's Will
Sexual Inconsistency
Necessary Violence
9 Priests Who Suffer; Priests Who Succeed 181
Suffering Servants
Struggling Servants
Suffering of Experience
Secretly Reformed
Exposed in Recovery
Image and Economy
10 The Christian Experience 187
Respect for the Biological Base
The Early Christian Experience
Conclusion
Bibliography 195
Name Index 211
Subject Index 214
