Clerical Sexual Abuse: How the Crisis Changed Us Catholic Church-State Relations

by Jo-Renee Formicola

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137384026
• ISBN13: 9781137384027
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"