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Clerical Sexual Abuse: How the Crisis Changed U.S. Catholic ChurchState Relations, by Jo Renee Formicola. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 279 pp., $105.00.
No Longer on Pedestals, by Carol A. Kuhnert. iUniverse, 2014, 385 pp., $23.00.
By now the clergy sexual abuse scandals, worldwide and of long duration, are out in the open. In our last issue we reviewed Kieran Tapsell's Potiphar's Wife: The Vatican's Secret and Child Sexual Abuse. The two reviewed now are just the latest in a long stream on the subject, many of them by Catholic authors, such as Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea's Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (2007); Leon...