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Clerical Sexual Abuse : How the Crisis Changed US Catholic Church-State Relations
ISBN: 9781137381644
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Political Science;

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States.

Dr. Jo Renee Formicola is Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University, USA. She is also the sole author of three other books on Catholic politics. She is the co-author of two books, the editor of several volumes, and has published extensively in journals on Church-State issues.