Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church

Brought completely up to date in this new paperback edition, this groundbreaking book provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. Encompassing the story in its entirety--as it has unfolded throughout the U.S. and throughout the Church hierarchy--BETRAYAL brings into focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon innocent children, and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes.- One of the most resonant and influential works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate.- Astonishing court documents, secured through the efforts of Globe journalists, are reproduced in an appendix.- An essential, insightful, helpful text for the Church leaders, both lay and clergy, who have already begun charting a new course for the Catholic Church in America.- The hardcover edition of BETRAYAL is now in its fourth printing with more than 50,000 copies in print.