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Focusing on two childhood friends in Newcastle, this powerful and heartbreaking story exposes how the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation, all the way to the Pope. Glen Walsh and Steven Alwa...rd were childhood friends in their tight-knit working class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well - Steven became a journalist; and Glen a priest. But when Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys, he reported the offending to the police, breaking Canon Law and his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. That decision eventually led to his death, just weeks before a key trial against the highest cleric to ever be charged with covering up child abuse. Two months later Glen's childhood friend Steven was also dead, only days before he was to marry the love of his life. So how were the deaths of both men linked to the deaths of at least 60 men in the blighted Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese? By five-time Walkley award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith, The Altar Boys is the powerful expose of how the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation, all the way to the Pope. Focusing on two childhood friends who eventually took their own lives, this gripping and explosive story is backed by secret documents, diary notes and witness accounts, and details a deliberate church strategy using psychological warfare against witnesses in key trials involving paedophile priests.
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This book looks at the influence a lifetime of patients has had on retired consultant psychiatrist Dr Tim Cantopher. It explores the profound, often moving, inter-relation between `healer' and `wounded', and examines how the two may overlap sometimes more than might be expected.
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This practical book is for people who are grieving, for people who want to support them as they undertake the painful journey of grief, and for anyone who wants to reflect on their own experiences of loss. Hendery gives you permission to work through your grief in the ways, and a...t the times, that are helpful to you. He explores disenfranchised grief when we are denied the right to grieve our losses.
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Rev Pole highlights Tongan cultural concepts & explores how they relate to ministering in English language, New Zealand parish settings. He hopes the book will improve the understanding by others of the Tongan way of thinking and of doing things.
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In this book, Rebekah Lyons examines the soul-practices that brought her freedom from her own bouts of anxiety and panic and helped her sustain that freedom. Sharing these rhythms, Rebekah gives the reader practical tools to contend for their own healing and sustained health and ...to forge a new road of wholehearted living.
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The journey of grief after the sudden loss of a loved one can be terribly hard. So painful.
Mary Redmayne shares a path through grief. Observations she made during a walk in the New Zealand bush inspired analogies of the journey of grief. Both of these are supported by her evoc...ative photographs, prayers, and poetry, along with Bible quotes, and suggested songs and music which come with a playlist accessible online. Each double page can stand alone as a meditation for a particular need, or it can be read as a whole.
The second half offers inspiration for healing through a wide range of sensory and meditative experiences, and uplifting photographs.
While everyone's grief is so individual, this book lets you know you are not alone.
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Wise words on the Coronavirus pandemic---and what we make of it all when it's all over---by one of the world's most widely respected Christian writers.
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Find your way out of depression, anxiety, fear, anger, and more by applying the principles of Misbelief Therapy. Learn how to handle emotions properly.
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After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a... clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history.
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Dodson asserts that fear and laziness have tweaked the view of God and created a weird Christian subculture where God tells people who to marry, where to work, and how to tie their shoes.
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