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was the correspondent. See David Kohn, 60 Minutes, “The Church on Trial, Part II,” July 12, 2002.

32. CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University), “Understanding the Ministry and Experience: Parish Life Coordinators in the United States,” Special Report, Summer 2005.

33. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, October 1, 1986, www.vatican.va. For a trenchant account on the impact of a gay culture in religious life, see Michael S. Rose, Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations from the Priesthood (Cincinnati, 2002). As an alternative, see Mark D. Jordan, The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (Chicago, 2000).

34. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York, 1984), pp. 170–71. For this note and the one that follows I have drawn upon Sister Christine Schenk’s thesis synopsis and bibliographical list. The citations are of my own choosing.

35. Karen Jo Torjesen, When Women Were Priests (San Francisco, 1993), pp. 32–33.

36. John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Apostolic Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone, May 22, 1994, www.vatican.va.

37. Doyle, Sipe, and Wall, Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes, p. 11.

38. Data from the Austrian church are from the office in Vienna of Cardinal Cristoph Schönborn, courtesy of The Tablet correspondent Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, in correspondence with the author.

39. “Responsum ad Dubium,” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, October 28, 1995, publicly released November 18, 1995, www.vatican.va.

40. Nicholas Lash, “On Not Inventing Doctrine,” The Tablet, December 2, 1995.

41. Joan Chittister, “Can’t Suppress Spirit,” National Catholic Reporter, December 8, 1995.

42. David Gibson, The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World (San Francisco, 2006), p. 214.

43. Jerry Filteau, “Bishop Calls Bishop-People Dialogue Key to Church’s Future,” Catholic News Service, October 31, 1995.

44. David Eden, “The Bishop’s Lawyer: A Question of Faith,” Cleveland Free Times, December 24, 2003.

45. McCarty and Briggs, “Diocese Confronted Clergy Abuse.”

46. WJW TV, 10 p.m. news, interview with the Kodger family, May 17, 2002.

47. Testimony of Stephen Sozio, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, case no. 1:06-CR-00394, U.S. v. Joseph Smith, et al., cross-examination by Philip Kushner, June 10, 2008. After much prodding, Sozio said the Jones Day partner who engaged the diocese had a $650-an-hour fee that was reduced to $250 to $280 because the church was a nonprofit.

48. James F. McCarty, “Bishop Pilla Walks Tightrope in Priest Sex Abuse Scandal,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 5, 2002.

49. Kohn, “The Church on Trial, Part II.”

50. James F. McCarty and Joel Rutchick, “Catholic Charities Seeks Pledge from Pilla,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 2, 2002.

51. Ibid.

52. John Maimone, “Current Financial Concerns of the Diocese of Cleveland: Parish Pastoral Council Chair Persons Gathering,” April 28, 2007. According to Joseph Smith, the 2006 figures cited by Maimone, who delivered his white paper as the diocesan CFO, were not appreciably different from those in 2002, as referenced in the Plain Dealer coverage by McCarty and Rutchick.

53. Jason Berry and Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II (New York, 2004), p. 286.

54. The account is based on Liturgy of Lament, which can be accessed at www.futurechurch.org. I have tightened certain passages for narrative pacing, with permission of the homilist. See also David Briggs, “Lament for Christ’s Broken Body,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 15, 2002.

55. James F. McCarty, “Seven Indicted in Diocesan Sex Cases,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 5, 2002.

56. Laurie Goodstein, “Diocese Resists Releasing Names of Accused Priests,

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