The Altar Boy

Author : Suzanne Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781460711491

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The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith Pdf

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.

Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : Exposit
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781476632032

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Death of an Altar Boy by E.J. Fleming Pdf

 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.

Author : David E. Rosage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Acolytes
ISBN : OCLC:463355853

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Letters to an Altar Boy by David E. Rosage Pdf

Author : Phil Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0997874503

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The Altar Boy by Phil Stephens Pdf

Black-robed nuns, priests, bishops, the select fraternity of Altar Boys, and the ancient ceremonies of the Catholic Church. Music of the '60s, boyhood shenanigans, Cootie doctors, and coming of age. This is the fictionalized tale of a funny, sensitive kid, who's caught in the middle when his family is fractured by a powerful priest.

Author : Chris Fuhrman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820335858

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman Pdf

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

Author : Father Charles J. Carmody
Publisher : St. Augustine Academy Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1936639734

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Learning to Serve: A Book for New Altar Boys by Father Charles J. Carmody Pdf

This 1961 classic contains all the valuable information that a young man needs in order to learn how to serve the traditional Latin Mass-yet it is so much more than just "nuts and bolts." After reading this book, boys will come away not only with an understanding of the parts of the Mass and the role they must fulfill; they will also have a true sense of the privilege with which they will be entrusted, and the ways in which they must advance in order to be worthy of that honor. Each of these 25 illustrated lessons therefore begins with a discussion of the character and responsibilities of those who assist at the altar. This done, a portion of the Latin responses are taught in phonetic form, and after this rubrics are introduced. Each chapter then ends with review questions. Useful in a classroom setting or for independent study, "Learning to Serve" is an indispensable resource for all prospective altar servers and those who are charged with their instruction.

Author : John Guzlowski
Publisher : Kasva Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948403177

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Little Altar Boy by John Guzlowski Pdf

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.

Author : S. J. Cassidy
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425055337

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The Altar Boy by S. J. Cassidy Pdf

Author : Andrew Madden
Publisher : Penguin Global
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143035665

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Altar Boy by Andrew Madden Pdf

The day Andrew Madden was molested by his favorite priest, his love of the Catholic Church was poisoned. The abuse lasted for three years, until Andrew was fifteen, and its impact, went on long after. Andrew lost direction, self-esteem, and the capacity to love. Eventually, he lost himself in drink. Altar Boy tells how Andrew found his way again. This candid and sometimes searing account of how abuse can affect a life also shows that victims don't have to remain victims.

Author : Brandon Christopher
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595430451

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Dirty Little Altar Boy by Brandon Christopher Pdf

"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.

Author : Tut LeBlanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949996301

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An Altar Boy Named 'Speck' by Tut LeBlanc Pdf

Speck is a well-intentioned, spirited, energetic, and often all-too-human boy of the cloth, there to serve, to support, and when possible, to mooch your sweet snacks! Here, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, is the very first collection of Speck cartoons. "An Altar Boy Named 'Speck'" started appearing in Catholic Action o the South (the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans) in 1951, and by 1952 the comic was already being collected into books and was signed with a national distributor. Unfortunately, the comic's creator, W. R. "Tut" LeBlanc, passed away in 1953. The feature was taken over by cartoonist Margaret Ahern, who kept it running until 1979. Also available: SPECK THE ALTAR BOY: The Collection Collection, with hundreds of cartoons by Margaret Ahern.

Author : Ryan Bedell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1008940666

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Altar Boy to Atheist by Ryan Bedell Pdf

"Altar Boy to Atheist: Giving Up God" is as much a random collection of thoughts about the world as it is the story of someone discovering themselves anew throughout different periods of their life. Ryan Bedell grew up Catholic, and now he's not. The book tries to explain why and how Ryan went from youth group leader to an agnostic atheist, and his stories of different religious experiences around the world will resonate with readers from any background.

Author : Jack Fritscher
Publisher : Palm Drive Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781890834371

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What They Did to the Kid by Jack Fritscher Pdf

"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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595322954

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The Altar Boys by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ramon Mendoza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Gangs
ISBN : 1936986000

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Mexican Mafia by Ramon Mendoza Pdf

A firsthand gripping, page-turning reveal of the early years of La Eme. This book provides an inside look into this criminal world, from street level to organized crime that operates anonymously within our society. The author was portrayed in the movie "American Me"