The Burden of Betrayal: Non-Offending Priests and the Clergy Child Sexual Abuse Scandals - Couverture souple

O'Sullivan, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0852448414 ISBN 13 : 9780852448410

Editeur : Gracewing, 2018

Synopsis

A PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNISED CATEGORY of victims is identified in this new study into the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandals: the Church's own non-offending priests. A detailed analysis of the perspectives of a select group of representative priests reveals that the scandals and the Church's often unsatisfactory handling of them have left significant psychological scars which the Church and even many clergy themselves have yet to recognise and address. Revd Dr Barry O'Sullivan, who is both a serving priest and a qualified counsellor, finds in his series of carefully controlled interviews with fellow priests that his beleaguered brotherhood should be classed among the secondary victims of this ongoing crisis for the Church. Originally undertaken as a doctoral study for the University of Manchester, this work casts new light on the far-reaching effects which this type of crisis can potentially inflict not just on Catholic priests but also on professionals in all walks of life which have been assailed by child sex abuse scandals.

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À propos de l'auteur

REVD DR BARRY O'SULLIVAN, ordained a priest in 1987, is a leading proponent of child safeguarding in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. As well as spending a decade as the Salford diocese Child Protection Co-ordinator, where he implemented child protection policies and procedures and dealt with any allegations affecting the diocese, he has been a member of the Bishop's Office for Pastoral Support of Clergy, the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Working Party on the care and rehabilitation of sex offenders, and the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults National Working Party to Develop a Safeguarding Programme for Clergy in England and Wales. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Revd Dr O'Sullivan was a full-time prison chaplain from 1995 to 1999, working as a group facilitator in the Sex Offender Treatment Programme in the prison with the largest number of sex offenders in Europe. A prominent speaker on safeguarding at Church conferences in the UK and internationally, he has attended Vatican Anglophone Conferences for Child Protection and is a member of the UK government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Academy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gracewing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0852448414
• ISBN 13: 9780852448410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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