Order! T. Pitt Green's first published book is a defense of the Catholic priesthood written by a survivor of child sexual abuse by priests. My childhood was a microcosm of a greater tragedy in the universal Church. Sanctuary had been defiled. I became prey to abuse as a child because the powerful permitted the counterfeit to hide among the real. (excerpt)
RESTORING SANCTUARY
a book of fierce faith, tough love, Irish wit
Author Green warns that the prevailing misunderstanding about the identity of priests, especially among Catholics, serves the purposes of evil at the heart of child sexual abuse. Yet this is not only a compelling reflection about priests and predators.
Steeped in rich theology and in the wit of an Irish Catholic upbringing, this unflinching work weaves together charming memories, haunted hints at dark agonies, along with straight talk about surviving the trauma of child sexual abuse.
T. Pitt Green discomforts the conscience and challenges the heart. You will close this book with clarity about the choice we face in cultivating healing in the royal priesthood and, with it, in the Church universal.
RESTORING SANCTUARY is a chronicle exploring how: