11-’15 SPOTLIGHT movie review
This is a heads-up for anyone still doubting the truth of clergy sexual abuse reports being made against priests in the Catholic Church. This movie exposes the Church Officials’ appalling behavior in just the Boston area; shocking everyone in 2002.
I recently viewed Spotlight at a St Louis South County theatre. Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams portray journalists assigned to investigate reports by abuse survivors in Boston. A specific investigative team of the Globe…..
This November 7, 2015 article by Bill Draper, Associated Press, appeared on www.stltoday.com.
“Kansas City – A Missouri prosecutor has called out members of a small community for shunning a sexual abuse victim while publicly supporting a community leader who confessed to molesting her for more than a decade.”
Three cheers for prosecuting attorney, Eric Zahnd. He was speaking of sixteen residents of Dearborn, a small town of about 500 residents in northwest Missouri, who strongly supported Darren Paden…..
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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…..
A book review by Harry Levins ran in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on April 11, 2015. Click the Link to view on their site.
ONLINE RADIO INTERVIEW for No Longer on Pedestals Toginet Radio http://tunein.com/radio/iUniverse-p601022/
BOOK REVIEWS
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…..