Whistle:: Fr. Tom Doyle's Steadfast Witness For Victims Of Clerical Sexual Abuse, by Robert Blair Kaiser
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In May, 2015, contrary to all expectations, Fr. Doyle was named as a consultant for the Vatican's highest Commission, charged with investigating clergy sexual abuse of victims.This action marks the culmination of Doyle's thirty year career of speaking out on behalf of survivors, against bishops and their attorneys, in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Tom Roberts of NCR reported the story in the July 25th issue of the paper. A Letter to the Editor by NCR reader John Fitzgerald stated, "To say that Tom Doyle was a thorn in the side of the Vatican would be an understatement. He was more like an attacking rhinoceros. Now he is finally appointed to advise a Pontifical Commission that reports directly to the Pope. Tom is just one step from the ear of Pope Francis. And it's official... Unbelievable." Access the NCR article by this Q.R. Code. This striking sign of approval by Pope Francis and other Vatican officials underscores the perduring support Doyle has also received from members of his own Dominican Order. This was highlighted in 2004 when Master General Br. Carlos Azpiroz Costa O.P. gave him an award for "Prophetic Ministry to Victims and Perpetrators." As a young priest in the early 1980s, Tom Doyle, seemingly, had everything: 3 PhDs in Canon Law, his pilot’s license, and a prestigious job at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C.. He was a Republican, and a strong supporter of Pope John Paul II’s doctrinaire agenda. But then, in 1984, it all began to unravel when he was asked to investigate rumors about a priest in Louisiana who was abusing teenage boys. The rumors were true, cases multiplied, and Doyle was fired. The bishops stone walled. Doyle became a chaplain -- and began testifying for victims. For the next 25 years. This is his story, from the inside. The book contains a Dedication by Tom Doyle, an Epilogue by Tom Fox of the National Catholic Reporter, and dozens of Quick Reference QR codes for Smart Phones and Tablets providing access to articles and other resources focusing on clerical sexual abuse. All profits will be donated to charities assisting victims of clerical abuse.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful. A compelling account of a courageous priest's advocacy on behalf of victims of clerical abuse. By Kathleen McManus Whistle is Bob Kaiser's profile in courage about Tom Doyle's steadfast witness and advocacy on behalf of the victims of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. If you are looking for a credible historical account of this scandal this is the book you need to have as a guide and a text and a roadmap for actions to be taken to never have this happen again. It highlights Tom Doyle's remarkable story ( which continues ) from the inside . Tom Doyle's path from being a Pope John Paul conservative Catholic official in the Washington Vatican Embassy to the courageous priest and noted canon lawyer who directly confronts the Catholic hierarchy year after year after year, in the civil courts, winning tens of millions of dollars for victims . Victims largely ignored and marginalized by the hierarchy including multiple Popes , Cardinals, Bishops, Pastors. This book is a lesson in the need for radical institutional change if the Catholic Church is to remain relevant in our lifetime. It is a testament to the victims and provides specific actions to be taken by the faithful if we are to be true advocates and companions for the marginalized . We will be hearing more from Fr. Tom Doyle as he continues to work toward radical church reform . Hugh and Katie McManus
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. totally ignored the report and decided the issue was better addressed internally By Joseph O'Neill A riveting expose of the Catholic Clerical sex molestation scandalBy Joseph P. O’Neill, July30, 2015Whistle: Tom Doyle’s Steadfast Witness for Victims of Clerical Sex Abuse, by Robert Blair Kaiser, is a riveting expose of the massive extent of the clerical sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, the widespread, devastating consequences to its hundreds of thousands of victims, and the relentless efforts of the Catholic Bishops to focus on protecting the reputation of the Church instead of protecting the helpless and innocent victims. The Bishops constantly minimized the number of perpetrators, regularly shuffled many to new assignments without any mention of why these men had been removed from their prior assignments, and failed to provide the medical and mental help the abusers so desperately needed. Their single goal: protect the power of hierarchical Church.A series of events in 1984 highlight the consistent stance of the Bishops. Cardinal Law asked Tom Doyle, Ray Mouton, a highly regarded defense attorney and legal scholar, and Michael Peterson, a psychiatrist-priest-director at St. Luke Institute, a treatment center for wayward priests, to prepare a report for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in hope that they would set up a committee to deal with the issue. The report, The Problem of Sexual Molestation by Roman Catholic Clergy, Meeting the Problem in a Comprehensive and Responsible Way, was given to the NCCB, to be discussed at a meeting of the U.S. Bishops at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. The Bishops, however, totally ignored the report and decided the issue was better addressed internally. At a press conference, Bishop James W. Malone, President of the NCCB, told the media that the NCCB was forming a committee to look into the sexual abuse issue. One problem: as Bob Kaiser notes, “…the so-called pedophilia committee was a public relations scam designed to let NCR and others in the media know that the NCCB was on top of things.” The committee was never formed.At that point Tom Doyle reasonably concluded “…that the major force of opposition was the central leadership of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the General Secretariat in particular.” One element that no doubt underpinned the consistency of the Bishops’ intransigence was the simple fact that so many of them had been appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. During their combined reigns from 1978 to 2013, the single most important criteria for being appointed a bishop was an unbending loyalty to Rome. The go-along-to-get-along routine, so you could go even higher.In Appendix A, Bob Kaiser offers a “Selective Chronology of Events.” And then in Appendix C, he comes to a dismaying conclusion: “…in spite of all that has happened since 1984, I do not believe there has been any fundamental change in the hierarchy. It may be true that individual bishops have either changed or have been compassionately supportive all along but in general the hierarchy is behaving today just as it did in 1985.”In documenting the courageous efforts of Tom Doyle to help the victims of clerical molestation of defenseless children, Bob Kaiser makes some harsh judgments. But there is no invective. The bishops were firmly convinced they were protecting the Church. Subsequent public reaction shows they almost destroyed the Church. While the number of U. S. Catholics continues to rise at a steady pace, between 1981 and 2014, the number of priests has declined by 33%. One alarming note, in a recent report, “…more than three-quarters of young American Catholics between the ages of 17 and 25 consider themselves ’lapsed’ Catholics.”Whistle was the last of sixteen books and hundreds of articles written by Bob Kaiser. Early in his career as a journalist, he was the official correspondent in Rome for Time magazine, assigned to cover the Second Vatican Council. He became an expert on the Council and knew more about it than any other journalist of his generation. In 1962 he won the Overseas Press Club’s Ed Cunningham Award for the “best magazine reporting from abroad” for his reporting on the Council. He was a loyal Catholic who dedicated his entire life to promoting the reforms initiated by the Council but never fully implemented. He died April 2, 2015.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Pope Francis' Worst Nightmare - A dedicated Dominican child protector as reported by a dying ex-Jesuit Vatican authority. By gerald t. slevin All Catholics, especially Pope Francis, should read this really remarkable and very readable book. It is the first truly insider account of the Vatican's ongoing US strategy since 1985 for priest child abuse cover ups, a timely reminder as the popular pope plans to begin his diversionary US and UN public relations tour in September. Fr. Thomas Doyle, O.P. was there at the outset working from 1981 to 1986 behind closed doors as a canon lawyer for the Vatican's US ambassador, Pio Laghi. For five years earlier, Laghi had as papal ambassador overseen Pope Francis' questionable role as Argentinian Jesuit provincial in the midst of the papacy's self interested acquiescence in the ruthless military dictatorship's reign of terror during Argentina's so called Dirty War.Laghi, as this bold and revealing book reports, was then in 1985 a central figure, along with Pope John Paul II, Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law and Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and others, in the formation of the US bishops' continuous cover up strategy that protected child rapists. Laghi was also one of Pope John Paul II's key liaisons to US President Ronald Reagan and later Bush presidents and to their billionaire backers. The Vatican, in effect, apparently delivered US votes, and right wing US presidents reciprocally delivered diplomatic protection and governmental subsidies. The Vatican's 2016 US election strategy will likely try to reinstate this political reciprocity with another Bush president, from most current indications.For their obedience, apparently, John Paul II rewarded Laghi by making him cardinal in 1991 and Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) by making him a bishop in 1992, unusual for a Jesuit. Tom Doyle, on the other hand, for being honest and brave on behalf of defenseless children, was exiled and harassed as a military chaplain, but kept on battling for children and survivors for over a quarter century, with considerable success. This very moving and fast paced book tells Doyle's inspiring and hopeful story, one that is continuing.Doyle is still battling. Over the last three years, he told his story in interviews to Robert Blair Kaiser, who has reported it vividly and informatively here. Kaiser, a former Jesuit for a decade, had been one of the top US reporters on Vatican matters for over fifty years, as well as the author of numerous insightful books, including "The Politics of Sex and Religion", the classic and still relevant history of the 1960's papal birth control commission, that Kaiser generously made available recently as a free e-book. Kaiser at 84 died two weeks after heroically finishing this book on his deathbed. The book has benefited much from Kaiser's broad and unique knowledge of the Catholic Church and its leadership. Kaiser, like Doyle, did not mince words and remained focused on the worst crisis facing the Catholic Church since the Reformation. This is a refreshing change in the current Francismania world where the pope's latest planned public relations diversion (like his climate encyclical) controls most of the compliant media's and opportunistic papal cheerleaders' agendas. The pope usually overlooks the abuse scandal, so many in the media follow his lead!Pope Francis has skillfully managed for over two years to avoid addressing seriously and timely holding bishops accountable for protecting priest child abusers and for denying priest abuse survivors basic justice due them. The pope now has, in effect, passed the buck to his successor in five years. Indeed, the Vatican might have succeeded in burying the abuse scandal completely, but for the brave advocacy of Tom Doyle and groups like SNAP, and some intrepid journalists like Jason Berry, Tom Fox and Arthur Jones, and the detailed documentation relentlessly generated at the website, BishopAccountability.org. Tom Doyle is unlikely to get a favorable call from the pope anytime soon.What this book makes clear is that the Vatican can try to continue a bit longer to survive as an absolute monarchy, but intrepid Catholics like Doyle, by their courageous actions and truthful message also make clear, that the Vatican's strategy will ultimately fail, sooner rather than later. The Vatican may have survived, barely, Luther and the printing press, but prophets like Tom Doyle and the Internet and 24/7 news cycle will soon sink the Vatican from most indications. The truth has it own indomitable power.Pope Francis and his billionaire backers can have his planned $50+ million plus extravaganza to tout the "poor" and condemn same sex marriage, as now planned for Philadelphia in September, as well as his appeals to US Latino voters with his misguided canonization of oppressive Spanish colonizer, Junipero Serra. In Philadelphia, the pope may visit in prison Monsignor William Lynn, the former top priest personnel aide to Philadelphia's cardinals, to find out, perhaps, why Lynn's family now reportedly indicate that Cardinals Bevilacqua and Justin Rigali were the really bad guys. When the Philly confetti settles, truth tellers like Tom Doyle, and others like him, will still be standing. Spin can avoid the truth for awhile, but the horrors of priest child sexual abuse cannot be buried for long. Certainly not while Tom Doyle is on the case. And, as Doyle repeatedly stresses, so many survivors are very brave. Lynn may be the first, but will not likely be the last, US Catholic leader to serve time for covering up priest child abuse. Indeed, some Minneapolis diocesan officials, former and/or present, may already be having nightmares about being prosecuted soon from some indications. So too must some Vatican officials who reportedly advised the Minneapolis officials.Despite the gruesome subject of priest child abuse and bishops' cover ups, priest Tom Doyle's story is both inspiring and hopeful. He has shown that there is at least one priest who cannot be bought or intimidated. His example has also provoked some others to speak out, and will provoke many more, both clerics and laity, in due time. Moreover, he shows that one person, if principled and brave enough, can make a real differenceSo if you want to find out what is really happening behind closed Vatican doors, after the pointless parades, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this book about one who knows first hand, Tom Doyle. You will be glad you did. I certainly am. Thank God for Tom Doyle!Doyle's many contributions over a quarter century include countless appearances as an expert witness on behalf of abuse survivors in civil lawsuits. He knows from his up close experience that wealthy Catholic Church leaders are prepared, with Vatican blessings, to spend billions of docile Catholics' donations to preserve their comfortable unaccountable status while stiffing abuse survivors. In desperation, many survivors are forced to seek governmental support shifting the consequences of clerical crimes to taxpayers, both Catholic and non-Catholics, while bishops live in luxury. Some abuse victims are less fortunate and end up committing suicide.Doyle also knows that withholding donations and filing civil lawsuits alone are not enough to make bishops accountable. He has played key roles, directly and/or indirectly, in governmental investigations, including the recent ones in Minneapolis and Philadelphia, as well as abroad, including in Australia and Ireland. He also was one of the first to sign the petition to President Obama calling for a US national investigation into institutional child sexual abuse, as Australia successfully has underway and the United Kingdom has recently begun.Perhaps the reports of child abuse allegations directed at the former US Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, will wake up the American people. For many years, Hastert was the second in line to succeed to the most powerful position in the world, US President, and yet barely a peep from US government leaders about the Hastert reports. What did they know and when did they know it? It may be that clericalism, or rallying around one's privileged elite group, applies to politicians as well as bishops. Time, prosecutors and media investigators will likely soon tell why the President and US Congress appear to fear a Federal investigation of institutional child abuse so long overdue. In the UK over 75 politicians reportedly are currently being investigated on child abuse related matters. Are US politicians purer or are US voters just dumber?
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