Render Unto Rome_ The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church - Jason Berry [227]
This book straddles journalism and history. Many articles formed the building blocks for certain chapters. I had substantial help along the way.
Above all, I thank the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington, D.C., particularly board member Margaret Engel, for support on this book and previous projects. To the Joe Busam Foundation, notably Barb Kelly, John Busam, and the late Claire Busam, I am grateful for the grants that facilitated my research in Rome and, previously, on the documentary film Vows of Silence.
Esther Kaplan and Joe Conason at the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute provided timely support for a National Catholic Reporter series on Father Maciel’s financial history. At NCR I have been lucky to work closely with editor-at-large Tom Roberts, a writer’s editor in the best sense. Joe Feuerherd, the publisher and editor-in-chief, was of great help on the Follieri reporting. Likewise, to editor Tom Fox and attorney David Korzenik, many thanks.
I am grateful to Special Agent Theodore V. Cacioppi of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York for his insights on the Follieri prosecution; to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Southern District of New York, for sending documents; and to the FBI for facilitating my Freedom of Information Act request.
Jack Ruhl, professor of accountancy and associate dean of the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University, drew upon his extensive research on financial statements of Catholic dioceses in answering many questions; he also gave a close reading of several sections.
Joseph Claude Harris provided data from his research on diocesan collections and was unfailingly helpful. Michael W. Ryan, an authority on church embezzlements and missing funds, shared his findings and opinions with refreshing candor.
Terence McKiernan and Anne Barrett Doyle of BishopAccountability.org have done pioneering work to create this online archive, which was of great help to me. For anyone interested in the internal politics of the church, BishopAccountability is an unparalleled resource. Many thanks to Leon C. Podles, author and a founder of BishopAccountability, for support of my production work and the early research on church closings.
In like measure, a debt of lasting gratitude to Eugene Kennedy, for advice of many years, and to Merry O’Donnell, for generous friendship.
I am grateful to Peter Borré for his time and information in the interviews, e-mails, and phone calls; and to his wife, Mary Beth, and her mother, Rose Mary Piper. Likewise, to Peter’s cousin, Marie Roth, for the genealogical research.
For assistance in various ways: Thomas Powers; Gerard Wimberly; Carolyn Disco; Tim Watson of Ariel Montage; Louise Rosen and Emily Radaker of Louise Rosen Ltd; Channing Penna; Jackie Renner; Julie Anderson; Therese Gahler; Mike Finnegan; Pat Noaker; Tom Byrne; Anastasia and Will Lyman; Ann and Alan Klonowski; Pat and Bill Nordstrom; Ginny and Larry Hoenhe; the late Reverend David A. Boileau; Barbara Fortier; Harold Baquet and Cheron Brylski; Alden Hagardon; Dan Bartley, president of Voice of the Faithful; Donna Doucette, the executive director; Peg Clark and other VOTF members too numerous to mention; Steve Sheehan and Kristine Ward of National Survivor Advocates Coalition News; SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) leaders Barbara Blaine, David Clohessy, Barbara Dorris, and Peter Isely.
To these priests who spoke on-the-record: Bob Begin, Jon Conley, Stephen Fichter, Bruce Teague, Robert Bowers, Stephen Josoma, Robert Marrone, Thomas Reese, SJ, Jerome LeDoux, SVD. I thank certain clerics of the Curia, the Legion of Christ in Rome,