Perversion of power : Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church /
Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
- xv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliogr. references (p. 267-304) and index.
From the Bayou to Boston: a developing pattern - Surviving soul murder - Suffering, submission, and sadomasochism - Embodied and gendered souls - Degraded sexual desire and theologized sex - Celibate sexuality and sexually active "celibates" - Homosexuality: secreted and scapegoated - Where were the pastors? - Clerical narcissism - Perpetrators, priests, people in the pews - The secret is revealed - Epilogue: Is everything old new again?.