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- English
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Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church
About this book
The stories in this book, which was first published in 1962, centre on the actions of some priests during the 1950s, echoing stories from today's front pages. However, former Franciscan priest and bestselling author of People's Padre and American Culture and Catholic Schools, Emmett McLoughlin focus in Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church is less on the priesthood, and more on the parishioners.To investigate his theory that the Catholic religion promotes criminal behavior rather than preventing it, he conducted a survey of all the prisons in the country in 1960. In every state, the percentage of Catholic inmates was greater than the state's percentage of Catholics in the population, even using the church's inflated figures. He then performed a similar survey of institutionalized mental patients, exploring the theory that Catholic beliefs drive people crazy, and came up with the same results.A courageous, thought-provoking book.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE-The Church and Society
- CHAPTER TWO-A Glance Behind the Iron Bars
- CHAPTER THREE-The Pious Prisoners
- CHAPTER FOUR-A Crime Trip Around the World
- CHAPTER FIVE-Two Millennia of Crime
- CHAPTER SIX-Venial Sin-The Primrose Path to Crime
- CHAPTER SEVEN-Penal Law-Just Don’t Get Caught!
- CHAPTER EIGHT-Sex Rears Its Ugly Head
- CHAPTER NINE-Priests-Their Wives and Concubines in the Age of Faith
- CHAPTER TEN-Ex-Priests-The Anonymous Legion of Decency
- CHAPTER ELEVEN-Legions of Indecency
- CHAPTER TWELVE-Training People to Become Neurotics
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN-Let the Statistics Tell Their Tragic Story
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN-Confession-The First Step in Mental Enslavement
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN-Indulgences-A Profitable Business
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN-The Cardinal Instructs the Priest on Fighting the Devil
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-What Catholicism Has Done to Catholics
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