Although there is a great deal of attention given quite rightly so to pedophile priests, my experience with clergy sexual abuse was also a nightmare. It started out by my being raped as a teenager by a priest who I thought I could trust and then being coerced into having an affair with him for fear of losing my children. A skilled manipulator, especially of vulnerable teenagers and young women who had challenges in their lives, we all thought a priest could help us overcome our particular situations. Once he gained my trust and pretended to be a friend, he set about a path to manipulate me toward a path to a living hell that put my spiritual health and soul in danger. I saw him as a man of the cloth, a man of God who would help me and my children without expecting anything in return. Little did I know I was not his fi rst victim, nor would I be his last, lured by his promises to leave the church for me, and by his word that God himself had sent him to save us.

In a series of recollections, writer Wilfred Arvizu, an original member of the young mariachi group, tears back the curtain and provides an inside look on how he and others dealt with a pedophile priest who was at once a self-confessed agnostic and not-so-self-confessed alcoholic and possible bi-sexual.

Father Richard has settled into his new parish, Our Lady of Damascus Catholic Church, in the peaceful Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. It's a far cry from New York City, his home for most of his life, but a married couple in his parish, Janet and Curtis, welcome him with open arms. They befriend their new priest, and he begins to settle into his new surroundings with ease, thanks to them. Unfortunately, his friendship with Janet soon grows into a forbidden love affair that takes them down an atmosphere of deception and intrigue. They go to any lengths to protect what they believe is an anointed union. The discovery of the affair not only devastates Curtis, but he also gets labeled as the town's villain, leaving him with nowhere to turn in order to save his family until an unsuspecting ally gives him hope. Are the powers behind Father Richard too much for him to overcome? Includes Reading Guide.

Documents the killing of elderly nun, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl by Father Gerald Robinson, a popular priest who was not convicted of her murder-- which had overtones of a Satanic ritual-- until twenty-five years later.

A collection of twenty-five poems that explores several corners of the author's mind.This book contains poems about love, hatred, entitlement,abuse and everything that makes up a human being. As the author's first collection of poems, she has tried to experiment with different topics of varied social and personal significance.Reading this book will be a peak into the mind of someone who is extremely ordinary in her existence and journey, but ordinary should never be restricted from being celebrated.

The Catholic "thing" - the concrete historical reality of Catholicism as a presence in human history - is the richest cultural tradition in the world. It values both faith and reason, and therefore has a great deal to say about politics and economics, war and peace, manners and morals, children and families, careers and vocations, and many other perennial and contemporary questions. In addition, it has inspired some of the greatest art, music, and architecture, while offering unparalleled human solidarity to tens of millions through hospitals, soup kitchens, schools, universities, and relief services. This volume brings together some of the very best commentary on a wide range of recent events and controversies by some of the very best Catholic writers in the English language: Ralph McInerny, Michael Novak, Fr. James V. Schall, Hadley Arkes, Robert Royal, Anthony Esolen, Brad Miner, George Marlin, David Warren, Austin Ruse, Francis Beckwith, and many others. Their contributions cover large Catholic subjects such as philosophy and theology, liturgy and Church dogma, postmodern culture, the Church and modern politics, literature, and music. But they also look into specific contemporary problems such as religious liberty, the role of Catholic officials in public life, growing moral hazards in bio-medical advances, and such like. The Catholic Thing is a virtual encyclopedia of Catholic thought about modern life.

While Nicole Clark was stunningly beautiful on the outside, she was dangerously evil on the inside. Father Forgive Me is a suspense thriller about Nicole, who was on a mission to kill her ex-husband, Tom, who obtained full custody of their son. In addition, Nicole was in desperate need of money, so she concocted a scheme to extort money from priests. Both of these quests go terribly wrong, and Nicole found herself in trouble. She hired a shady attorney, Howard Mancini, who clashed with Detective Roger Drake. Will she succeed in killing her ex-husband or in extorting money from priests? How will the priests react? Will Detective Roger Drake stop her? Can her shady attorney save her? Father Forgive Me is a page-turner with unpredictable turns and twists that will keep the reader guessing.