The Vatican Boys

Author : Jack Dunn
Publisher : Flats Press, Llp
ISBN 13 : 9780977619658
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatican Boys written by Jack Dunn and published by Flats Press, Llp. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Turrell was well aware of the reputation of international banker Robert Calvi, the man accused of stealing hundred of millions of dollars from the Vatican Bank, and Michele Sindona, famous for his involvement in the Franklin National Bank scandal in the United States. She had heard stories about how each of them had come to an untimely end, Calvi found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London and Sindona poisoned in an Italian prison. But she was completely unaware of the pivotal role that the Opus Dei organization played in their lives and the insidious influence of its corrupt priests on the Vatican. Father Karl Rovarik was not one of those priests. He was a holy man and the pastor of a small church in Galilee. Years before, he had been entrusted with a powerful relic that Jesus Himself had given the Apostle Paul. "Beware of those who manipulate the beliefs of the teacher and turn them into tools for profit," He had said. "They will one day feel the wrath of God." The world of international money and power collides with the timeless spiritual doctrines of the Catholic Church as Catherine Turrell and Father Karl Rovarik try to stop corruption from distorting what is sacred.

Author : Jack Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848827724
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vatican Boys written by Jack Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460711491
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Altar Boys written by Suzanne Smith and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price **Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award** **Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize** ** Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award** Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But their lives came to be burdened by secrets kept and exposed. Glen discovered that another priest was sexually abusing boys and reported the offender to police, breaking his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. His decision to give evidence regarding the cover-up of clerical abuse at a landmark trial ended in tragedy. Meanwhile, Steven was fighting his own battle to overcome a traumatic past, a battle that also ended in tragedy. Ensuing investigations revealed that at least 60 men in the region had taken their own lives. What had happened, and why were so many of those men from the three Catholic high schools in the area? By six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith and shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, The Altar Boys is the explosive expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation. Focusing on two childhood friends, their families and community, this gripping story is backed by secret documents, diary notes and witness accounts, and details a deliberate church strategy of using psychological warfare against witnesses in key trials involving paedophile priests.

Author : Jack Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913727116
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Da Vinci Fraud written by Jack Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Dunn was devastated to discover Dan Brown had stolen the story from his novel The Vatican Boys to create the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code. The plagiarism was obvious. There were hundreds of similarities between the two books, including characters, settings, plot lines and subject matter. The discovery changed the course of Jack's life. He began an extraordinary fight for justice which pushed him to the depths of despair as he tried to prove his work had been copied by Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Fraud is Jack's story, his explosive true account of the greatest literary fraud in history and a book which will change forever the way the world sees one of the most successful writers of all time.

Author : Jack Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966260205
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatican Boys written by Jack Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Thavis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124536
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatican Diaries written by John Thavis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling inside look at one of the world’s most powerful and mysterious institutions For more than twenty-five years, John Thavis held one of the most remarkable journalistic assignments in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. In The Vatican Diaries, Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place struggling to define itself in the face of internal and external threats, where Curia cardinals fight private wars and sexual abuse scandals threaten to undermine papal authority. Thavis (author of The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age) also takes readers through the politicking behind the election of Pope Francis and what we might expect from his papacy. The Vatican Diaries is a perceptive, compelling, and provocative account of this singular institution and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the challenges faced by religion in an increasingly secularized world.

Author : Frederic Martel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472966155
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Closet of the Vatican written by Frederic Martel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book's revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book's first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect the book has had and the events that have come to light since it was first released. In the Closet of the Vatican describes the double lives of priests--including the cardinals living with their young "assistants" in luxurious apartments whilst professing humility and chastity--the cover-up of numerous cases of sexual abuse; sinister scheming in the Vatican; political conspiracy overseas in Argentina and Chile, and the resignation of Benedict XVI. From his unique position as a respected journalist with uninhibited access to some of the Vatican's most influential people and private spaces, Martel presents a shattering account of a system rotten to its very core.

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068126
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lead Us Not Into Temptation written by Jason Berry and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While seminaries, by many accounts, admit an increasing number of homosexuals, women are strictly barred from ministerial roles. The church's time-honored tradition of "avoiding scandal" also backfires. For by the shielding of fallen clerics, Berry shows, the suffering of the abused is often compounded.

Author : Amy Welborn
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 : 0829430202
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loyola Kids Book of Saints written by Amy Welborn and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of SaintsWho are the saints, why are the lives of saints important for children, and what can children learn from lives and actions? In Loyola Kids Book of Saints, the first in the Loyola Kids series, best-selling author Amy Welborn answers these questions with exciting and inspiring stories, real-life applications, and important information about these heroes of the church. This inspiring collection of saints’ stories explains how saints become saints, why we honor them, and how they help us even today. Featuring more than sixty saints from throughout history and from all over the world, Loyola Kids Book of Saints introduces children to these wonderful role models and heroes of the church. Ages 8-12.

Author : P. D. Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954359669
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Codeword Barbelon - Danger in the Vatican written by P. D. Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text recounts the little known history of the Illuminati, and reviews how knowledge of this secret organisation was transmitted to America, and more importantly, how it has ruled the world from that country ever since.