Kevin Lewis O’Neill 
Unforgivable [EPUB ebook] 
An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad

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The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
 
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops moving credibly accused priests not simply between parishes but also across international borders.
Unforgivable follows the movement of one such perpetrator from the Great Plains of central Minnesota to the Indigenous highlands of Guatemala, where this priest had access to children and even raised one as his own.
 
Although Father David Roney is at the center of this particular story, author Kevin Lewis O’Neill offers ample evidence that offshoring priests is a common practice. These maneuvers and the callous indifference of the Church—even once caught red-handed—reveal the limits of justice. They also lay bare the disturbing fact that the scale of clerical sexual abuse is far bigger than anyone has yet considered. Rigorously researched and viscerally important, this book raises urgent questions about holding the Catholic Church accountable.

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Table of Content

Contents
Preface 
I. A Priest Forever, 1945–1987 
II. Becoming Deviant, 1987–1994 
III. A Town without Pedophilia, 1994–2003 
IV. At the Margins of Victimhood, 2003–2017 
V. The Will to Survive, 2017–2023 
Postscript 
Acknowledgments 
Reading Group Guide 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

About the author

Kevin Lewis O’Neill is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion as well as in the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. A cultural anthropologist, his work focuses on the moral dimensions of contemporary political practice in Latin America. His previous books include City of God, Secure the Soul, and Hunted.  

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 280 ● ISBN 9780520409125 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2025 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 10088664 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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