Carol A. Kuhnert
Excitement is building among Catholics in anticipation of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. in Pennsylvania this month. Among other things, he’ll be visiting President Obama at the White House, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, holding an interfaith service at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, saying a Mass for church leaders at the Cathedral in Philadelphia, attending the World Meeting of Families, visiting Philadelphia’s largest prison and saying a Mass, open to…..
Wow! How blessed I am to have witnessed the strength, love and courage by not only the speakers at the 2015 SNAP Conference, but also those who attended. We met many victims who are at different stages of recovery.
People may not realize it or want to think about it, but members of the SNAP (Survivors of those Abused by Priests) Community have either been sexually abused or have had a member of their family or someone close to them abused.
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A lot of people ask me, “Why did you write this book?”
Learning back in the late 80s that my own brother, a Catholic priest, was a child molester, completely stunned me, but I didn’t doubt my daughter’s words as she painfully spoke of her Uncle Norman’s behavior. I thank God she found the courage to tell me about him.
I called a close family friend who had been a good support through rough times in our lives, a priest…..
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Laure McCourt Lopez Book Review: “No Longer on Pedestals” by Carol Kuhnert By Laure McCourt Lopez Mar 22, 2015 – 3:24:50 AM 
In life, there are subjects that one may find difficult to discuss and then there are those topics that create such an emotional upheaval within the soul that few dare venture to acknowledge let alone give…..
A comprehensive study of abuse by priests conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York in 2004 claimed that 10,667 people were sexually abused between 1950 and 2002. The study can be found here.
Carol Kuhnert, author of No Longer on Pedestals, shares her personal story after her daughter reveals the pedophilia within their church and family.
As a devoted and lifelong member of the Roman Catholic Church, Kuhnert…..
After learning in 1988 that my brother had been sexually abusing young boys, I had gone to a Church official, expecting him to tell me that he was being watched or in therapy. I expected an answer.
I received no information at all.
When I spoke with the church official, he told me that this was not my problem to worry about, and the Church would take care of everything. As time passed, decade-by-decade, I continued to question Church officials…..
Carol Kuhnert always trusted priests completely. As a child growing up in a strict Catholic family, clergy stood on pedestals next to God in her eyes. When her brother, Norman, expressed a desire to become a priest and entered the seminary after eighth grade, Carol had no idea that one day, her daughter would reveal a shocking secret: Norman was a serial pedophile.
Stunned and angered by what she learned, Carol not only reveals how she confronted her brother and…..