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IV. Catholic Thresholds, Spatial Contests, and the “Crisis in the Church”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2018

Mara Willard
Mara Willard*
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
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In Washington, DC, at the top of the long hill up Wisconsin Avenue where Massachusetts Avenue crosses Thirty-Fourth Street, there has been for a long time a fixture on the landscape. An old man, life scarred and perhaps homeless, perhaps schizophrenic, holds a big homemade sign that reads “Vatican Protects Pedophiles Worldwide.”

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Theological Roundtable
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Horizons , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , June 2018 , pp. 141 - 145
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Copyright © College Theology Society 2018 

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References

29 Much of this is detailed in the collected volume published by the investigative staff of the Boston Globe: Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (Boston: Little, Brown, 2002)Google Scholar.

30 See, for instance, O'Toole, James M., The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

31 Bane, Mary Jo, “A Challenge to Lay Catholics,” Boston Globe, February 3, 2002Google Scholar.

32 Universities, including the program at Boston College “Church in the Twenty-First Century,” played a related role. As a Jesuit institution, Boston College is not under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Boston.

33 “Theologian Petition: Voice of the Faithful Has the Right to Exist,” drafted by Dr. Thomas Beaudoin, Dr. William Clark, SJ, and Dr. Anthony Massimini, http://www.votf.org/Who_We_Are/theologian.html.

34 See Petro, Anthony, “Beyond Accountability: The Queer Archive of Catholic Sexual Abuse,” Radical History Review 122 (Spring 2015): 160–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “VOTF Statement regarding Bannings in Newark and Camden, NJ,” October 11, 2002, http://www.votf.org/Press/pressrelease/allue.html.

35 These included Paul Lacamera of Channel 5, Pat Bersell of the Boston Herald, and David Delicandro of John Hancock. In the Boston Globe, see Michael Paulson, “Most Catholics in Poll Fault Law's Performance,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2002; Paulson, “Most Catholics in Poll Want Resignation,” ibid., April 17, 2002; and Paulson, “Catholics Want Change, Poll Finds,” ibid., May 11, 2003.

36 See Seitz, John, No Closure: Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

37 O'Connor, Thomas H., Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998)Google Scholar.

38 Jan, Tracy, “After 17 Years, Lone Protester Still Holds Vigil at Vatican Embassy,” Boston Globe, September 22, 2015Google Scholar.