Priests, Passion & Power
The Dynamics of Celibacy & Homosexuality in the Catholic Church
reviewed by Leon J. Podles
Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church
by Michael S. Rose
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002
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Leon J. Podles holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, has worked as a teacher and a federal investigator, and is president of the Crossland Foundation. He is the author of The Church Impotent (Spence), Sacrilege (Crossland Press), and Losing the Good Portion: Why Men Are Alienated from Christianity (St. Augustine Press). Dr. Podles and his wife have six children and live in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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