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...Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades in church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan, a priest who has so far cost the Archdiocese of Boston more than $10 million to settle just some of the pedophilia suits he faces...
...there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years," he says. "I plan to stay here and die here...
...that is falling under the influence of saintly wanderers known as Good Men who preach that the world was created by the devil and should be despised. The narrative, which is based on historical sources, unfolds from several points of view: those of an alcoholic widow, a lustful village priest, a cobbler struggling with his homosexuality, a conflicted Inquisitor. Craig has the gift of finding complexity in simple people, and she tells their stories in fluid, shapely prose that blends mysteries both religious and erotic with the scratchy, stinky realities of peasant life. She slips only rarely into...
...teachings of the Good Men, option (b), took hold in Montaillou and surrounding towns around the turn of the fourteenth century. The Church, disturbed by this, set up an Inquisition to seek out and remedy the heresy. Betrayed by their own priest, the villagers of Montaillou were discovered, imprisoned and questioned about their beliefs. One young woman who was deposed by the Inquisition was Grazida Lizier...
...exactly mirror the actual players in the heresy of Montaillou, this fact does not make them any less real in the world of the novel. Craig’s precise character development allows an intimate look at the psychology of each person. We see the village priest struggle to reconcile his vocation with his lustful desires, complicated by his secret sympathy for the Good Men. We watch as a yearning for the priest grows in both Lizier and her mother, and see the resulting resentment. We witness the struggles of the Inquisitor as he tries to remain firm...