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Author Allen, John L., Jr., 1965-

Title All the Pope's men : the inside story of how the Vatican really thinks / John L. Allen, Jr.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  282 ALL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  282.136 ALLEN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  282.73 AL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 392 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Vatican 101 -- Top five myths about the Vatican -- Vatican psychology -- Vatican sociology -- Vatican theology -- Vatican and the American sexual abuse crisis -- Vatican and the war in Iraq.
Summary Publisher description: A fascinating and enlightening look at the world's oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present. The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and the Vatican. In Rome, the crisis was often seen as an attack on the Church mounted by money-hungry lawyers, a hostile press, and liberal activists who used it as a way to turn attention on such concerns as celibacy, women's ordination, and lay empowerment. When the Vatican struck down the U.S. bishops' draft for handling allegations of sexual abuse, many saw it as an attempt to curb an independent American Catholic church. Yet, as time passed, it became clear that the Vatican's well-founded concerns about due process were shared by most liberal U.S. bishops and canon lawyers. ALL THE POPE'S MEN is a lucid, in-depth guide to the sometimes puzzling, often incomprehensible inner workings of the Vatican. It reveals how decisions are made, how papal bureaucrats think, and how careers in the Roman Curia are shaped. It debunks the myths that have fed the distrust and suspicions many English-speaking Catholics harbor about the way the Vatican conducts its business, explains who really wields the power, and offers entertaining profiles of the personalities, historical and present-day, who have wielded that power for good and for bad. A thoughtful analysis of the recent sexual abuse crisis sheds light on how the Vatican perceives the Church in the United States. Balanced, lively, and filled with Vatican history and lore, ALL THE POPE'S MEN provides the general reader with an authoritative picture of the highly charged relationship between the Vatican and the richest, most influential national Catholic church in the world today.
Subject Catholic Church. Curia Romana.
Vatican City.
ISBN 0385509669 alkaline paper
9780385509664 alkaline paper
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