Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church
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Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church

  1. 201 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Papamoa Press
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781787208575
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. CHAPTER ONE-The Church and Society
  6. CHAPTER TWO-A Glance Behind the Iron Bars
  7. CHAPTER THREE-The Pious Prisoners
  8. CHAPTER FOUR-A Crime Trip Around the World
  9. CHAPTER FIVE-Two Millennia of Crime
  10. CHAPTER SIX-Venial Sin-The Primrose Path to Crime
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN-Penal Law-Just Don’t Get Caught!
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT-Sex Rears Its Ugly Head
  13. CHAPTER NINE-Priests-Their Wives and Concubines in the Age of Faith
  14. CHAPTER TEN-Ex-Priests-The Anonymous Legion of Decency
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN-Legions of Indecency
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE-Training People to Become Neurotics
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN-Let the Statistics Tell Their Tragic Story
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN-Confession-The First Step in Mental Enslavement
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN-Indulgences-A Profitable Business
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN-The Cardinal Instructs the Priest on Fighting the Devil
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-What Catholicism Has Done to Catholics
  22. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER

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