Precarious - A Survivor of Clerical Abuse Remembers

"I never imagined how much sexual assault on a child could destroy their adult life. I was shocked by the scandal of such crimes, especially when they are perpetrated by men of the Church. That was my view until one day suddenly it came back to me what a priest had done to me during my childhood. I had been locked in denial for almost forty years. Because I had complained and finally spoke, I thought I could heal, but everything fell apart. In the rubble of my history, came a nagging question: how could I have chosen to become a priest?" This is the blub from the French text of Priáere, de ne pas abuser, a memoir by Jesuit Patrick C. Goujon about his recovered memory as an adult that he had been abused by a priest as a boy. The book is written in a very poetic French. It was published last year by âEditions du Seuil and has been reviewed very prominently in France, including in Le Monde, Le journal du Dimanche, La Croix, and L'est Republicain"--

About the author

Patrick C. Goujon, SJ, a professor of theology and spirituality at Centre Sèvres, the Jesuit school of graduate theology in Paris; a fellow at Campion Hall-Oxford (UK); and the chief editor of the journal Recherches de Science Religieuse.
Gerald J. McGlone, SJ, senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. Previously, he was the chief psychologist and the director of counseling services at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick C. Goujon, Patrick C./ Mcglone Goujon
• Assisted by: Gerard McGlone (Foreword), Joseph Munitiz (Translation), Joseph Munitz (Translation)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781647123819
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-381-9
• No. of pages: 88
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Abnormal psychology, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church