Death Of An Altar Boy
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Death Of An Altar Boy
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Author : E.J. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Exposit
Release Date : 2018-04-04
Death Of An Altar Boy written by E.J. Fleming and has been published by Exposit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-04 with True Crime categories.
The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal—a string of assaults within the Catholic Church—exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications, including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors, pointing to him as Croteau’s killer, the Reverend Richard R. Lavigne remains “innocent.” Drawing on more than 10,000 pages of police and court records and interviews with Danny’s friends and family, fellow abuse victims, and church officials, the author uncovers the truth—church complicity in a cover up and the masking of priests’ involvement in a ring of abusive clergy—behind Croteau’s death and those who had a hand in it.
The Altar Boy
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Author : Robert Osczepinski
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2019-02-20
The Altar Boy written by Robert Osczepinski and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-20 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Next time you hear the altar boy's bell and you're taking holy communion, when you look into his eyes you will say to yourself, could this be the next.. Altar Boy
The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys
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Author : Chris Fuhrman
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys written by Chris Fuhrman and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The basis for the film starring Kieran Culkin. “Evoked with the rare, genuine sort of candor that made Holden Caulfield—and J.D. Salinger—famous.”—Vogue Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority. When Sodom vs. Gomorrah ’74, their collaborative comic book depicting Blessed Heart’s nuns and priests gleefully breaking the seventh commandment, falls into the hands of the principal, the boys, certain that their parents will be informed, conspire to create an audacious diversion. Woven into the details of the boys’ preparations for the stunt are touching, hilarious renderings of the school day routine and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover. “Fuhrman takes wicked pleasure in scraping teen innocence against the graveled, perverse underbelly of suburban childhood.”—Newsday “The freshness of Fuhrman’s novel comes from his ability to squeeze out of a time of transition universal evocations of rebellion against growing up . . . Fuhrman provides his story and characters with enough originality to keep the narrative clipping along and his reader totally absorbed.”—Chicago Tribune “Heartbreaking yet hilarious . . . chronicles a school year in the life of narrator Francis Doyle, an eighth-grader at the parish school of the Blessed Heart . . . can be compared to many of the classic coming-of-age novels.”—Publishers Weekly
The Altar Boys
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Author : Suzanne Smith
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2020-08-01
The Altar Boys written by Suzanne Smith and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-01 with True Crime categories.
Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price **Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award** **Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize** ** Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award** Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But their lives came to be burdened by secrets kept and exposed. Glen discovered that another priest was sexually abusing boys and reported the offender to police, breaking his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. His decision to give evidence regarding the cover-up of clerical abuse at a landmark trial ended in tragedy. Meanwhile, Steven was fighting his own battle to overcome a traumatic past, a battle that also ended in tragedy. Ensuing investigations revealed that at least 60 men in the region had taken their own lives. What had happened, and why were so many of those men from the three Catholic high schools in the area? By six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith and shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, The Altar Boys is the explosive expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation. Focusing on two childhood friends, their families and community, this gripping story is backed by secret documents, diary notes and witness accounts, and details a deliberate church strategy of using psychological warfare against witnesses in key trials involving paedophile priests.
What The Altar Boy Heard
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Author : Dan Price
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2011
What The Altar Boy Heard written by Dan Price and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
A suicide note found beside the body of a twelve year old altar boy sends his father on a murderous rampage. Two New York detectives will lead the hunt for the killer, but the discovery of a diary along with imminent danger to their own families, will make the killer's capture almost impossible. The third novel by Dan Price introduces Malcolm McBride and Arnie Buckholtz, two New York detectives thrust into the horror of the death of a child. The story will send the reader on a gut wrenching journey through the mind of a father bent on revenge and the efforts of two detectives determined to stop him. Dan Price has shown once again his ability to tell a story that grabs the reader by the throat and makes him turn the page.
What They Did To The Kid
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Author : Jack Fritscher
language : en
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
Release Date : 2002
What They Did To The Kid written by Jack Fritscher and has been published by Palm Drive Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"What They Did to the Kid" is a memoir spinning as a comic novel for general-fiction readers intrigued by boys' school tales, and baby boomers who "survived Catholic school." Ryan O'Hara, coming of age from 14 to 24, is the wise adolescent narrating readers' entry into the secret culture of 1950's altar boys who go to the seminary, meet priests, and must decide their own identities. The novel's interior ticking covers the clock and calendar of boys' emerging consciences and edgy consciousness. "The San Francisco Chronicle" says, "Jack Fritscher reads gloriously." Strong characters and snappy dialog propel the character-driven plot of male-dominant pecking order. At Misericordia Seminary (aptly nicknamed "Misery"), Ryan O'Hara exposes his own story. He's trapped for oxygen-with 500 other boys-by the imperial Rector Karg, the disciplinarian Father Gunn "of the USMC," the tart Father Polistina, and the rebel-priest Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK." The storytelling Irish-American author gives each ensemble character-hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman-a rich back story. Black civil rights of the 60's as well as three interesting women characters open this tale out of the suffocating seminary and on to the hot streets of Chicago's South Side and Old Town. The compelling psychological drama hinges on the very source and aspirations of priestly vocation versus self-esteem. "Is God calling me-and what about chastity? Or is it just the 'Bali Hai' of blind ambition and social climbing-and what about sex?" Fritscher makes deeper than usual sense of soulful coming-of-age material. The hearty supply of boarding school episodes cumulatively reveals the dueling dynamic between the boyish protagonist, Ryan O'Hara, and the callous ambition of the handsome bully, Tank Rimsky, as they fight toward the finish line of "manly men's" ordination to the priesthood. "The hardest thing to be in America today is a man." The novel is based on an under-reported story: the Catholic Church recruited 200,000 boys into seminaries in the 1950's. Only 20,000 were ordained. "Kid" details, in a nostalgic and not unkind take what happened to the missing 180,000 boys and the women and men in their families. Daring to step inside Catholic culture, without being parochial, this American story reveals the 1950's roots of 21st-century "recovering Catholic" panic and angst. The millions of post-Catholic baby boomers who have exited the Church will compare notes and laugh knowingly at the dead-on characterizations. Fashionably anti-Catholic campers will say, "but, of course " Readers might catalog "Kid" in the genre of "Young Torless, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "Lord of the Flies." Before now, no one of the surviving 180,000 ex-seminarians has dared reveal this insider confession on the secret milieu of the Catholic education of priests. From interviews with more than a hundred former seminarians, Jack Fritscher uniquely stages their true story arcs with wit, verve, and comedy. "What They Did to the Kid" is the fourth novel from Jack Fritscher whose twelve books have sold more than 100,000 copies. Jack Fritscher is a graduate of the prestigious Pontifical College Josephinum, a Roman Catholic seminary, located in Columbus, Ohio, and directly subject to the Vatican in Rome. He received his doctorate in American Literature from Loyola University, Chicago.
Altar Boy Altered Life
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Author : David Price
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Pub Llc
Release Date : 2008-09
Altar Boy Altered Life written by David Price and has been published by Dog Ear Pub Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chronicling the events of my life, from my upraising in a big Catholic family, asone of fourteen children, to my victimization by my Principal, a trusted and respected priest, known in Orange County as "Father Hollywood" for hischarismatic charm and good looks. The ensuing scandal made national headlines, blew the lid off of a major cover-up, and subsequently opened the flood gates for a massive settlement against the Catholic Church for hundreds of victims. It all began back in the 70s and 80s, after the death of my natural parents. I was ateenage altar boy being raised by my new quadriplegic step mom; all the while, I was being secretly abused by a powerful and influential priest...These memorieswere locked away for a long time. That is, until, as a 28 year old man, I foundmyself waking up in a cold sweat, haunted by nightmares of a child being assaulted by a priest. I became depressed, even suicidal, and finally sought therapy, and began a life-altering journey, as I exposed my abuser and sued the Catholic church. The ramifications of my coming forward are still being felt in California today, asnew cases are being brought forward against the Diocese. Moreover, the epidemiccontinues across America, as other clergy are being accused of shamefully preyingon the innocent. Truly, the resulting story is an uplifting, dramatic, and emotional roller coasterride, as I face my memories as well as a grueling court-ordered deposition -interrogated by numerous attorneys, including one that has represented some veryhigh profile clients. No holds were barred; from my sexuality to my spirituality. I was questioned for eleven days... Ultimately leading to an unceremonious de-frocking of a beloved "celebrity celebrant" and a monumental legal victory against the Catholic church. The inspiring tale is intended as a healing message for victims of abuse, and awatchword for parents who implicitly entrust their children to those in influential positions.
Altar Boy
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Author : Neal P. Gillen
language : en
Publisher: Infinity Pub
Release Date : 2010-11-11
Altar Boy written by Neal P. Gillen and has been published by Infinity Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with Fiction categories.
A conflicted young man's desire to become a priest is detoured by love and devotion to his family even as one member becomes entangled with the Mafia.
Dirty Little Altar Boy
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Author : Brandon Christopher
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-02
Dirty Little Altar Boy written by Brandon Christopher and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I am 13 years old. I just realized that I'm not as good-looking as my mom led me to believe. I wear two pairs of underwear . everywhere. These are my stories." It was 1985, and if you weren't a diehard Knight Rider fan then you probably wouldn't survive on the savage and perilous playground of St. Charles private school. It was a time unlike any other, filled with strange fashion choices, schoolyard extortion rackets, and first dates. It was a time for kids who stuck firecrackers in cats' asses, a time for pretending to be murdered to freak out neighbors, and a time for realizing that no one really liked you. It was the perfect time for a "Dirty Little Altar Boy." Middle-class, middle child, way uncool hair-these are the true confessions of a 13-year-old at the crossroads of junior high and hellfire eternity.
Little Altar Boy
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Author : John Guzlowski
language : en
Publisher: Kasva Press
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Little Altar Boy written by John Guzlowski and has been published by Kasva Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Fiction categories.
On a snowy Thursday night in Chicago, there is a knock on Detective Hank Purcell’s door. Sister Mary Philomena has seen something terrible at Saint Fidelis Church?—?a violation of all she holds sacred. The next Monday, she is found murdered in the convent basement, next to a furnace stuffed with old papers and photographs. And Margaret, Hank’s teenage daughter, has disappeared. Hank and his unconventional partner Marvin Bondarowicz try to force their way through a wall of ecclesiastical silence to find the killer, while their search for Margaret takes them from swank lakeside flats to drug dens to south-side basement blues clubs…and the snow keeps falling.