Clerical Errors
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Clerical Errors

How Clericalism Betrays the Gospel and How to Heal the Church

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Clerical Errors

How Clericalism Betrays the Gospel and How to Heal the Church

About this book

The Catholic church is in serious decline. This book claims that the corruption of the institution derives from various "clerical errors, " especially clericalism, which assumes that clergy are superior and deserve privileges. Clericalism divides the church into two unequal classes, betraying the gospel, which teaches that all people are equal. Clerical privilege makes the sexual abuse of children more likely, and has led most bishops to conceal it.Clerical Errors begins by examining the trials and acquittal of Cardinal Pell. Was it the jury who made a grave error--or was it the cardinal? Other chapters look at worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and traumatic impacts on survivors. What might have caused this tragedy? The institutional nature of the church? Defective Canon Law? Misuse of the sacrament of Confession? Compulsory celibacy? Homosexuality?The book's last, hopeful chapter proposes a radical but simple model for restoring the Christian church.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Trials of George Pell
  6. Chapter 2: “. . . To All Nations”
  7. Chapter 3: A Lifetime Sentence
  8. Chapter 4: How Could It Come to This?
  9. Chapter 5: Clericalism
  10. Chapter 6: The Failure of Canon Law
  11. Chapter 7: The Amoral Institution
  12. Chapter 8: Temple and Priesthood Restored
  13. Chapter 9: How Clerics Have Changed the Eucharist
  14. Chapter 10: Reshaping the Pyramid
  15. Bibliography