Shitten Shepherds and Clene Sheep: Unmasking the True Causes of the Scandals in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church has long been featured in headlines regarding sexual abuse. Now, a Catholic priest gives the full inside scoop.

Joseph Copperson, nonpracticing priest for an American Catholic parish, writes this memoir detailing decades of clerical abuse throughout the Catholic Church. Becoming ordained during the 1960s and the major cultural upheavals of the Vietnam war and the sexual revolution, Copperson's experience winds from rigorous theological training in Europe to the ongoing, ...