| eBook | Unspeakable Joy |
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| ISBN | 1490354409 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781490354408 |
| Publication | 21 May 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 258 |
| Format Type | Paperback |
Unspeakable joy by douglas miller
But who now believes he bears some responsibility for the naive unwillingness of the non molested seminarians to figure out what was going on with their most vulnerable peers He is sure he must have known on some level and was complicit in the monster like behavior of the offending priests Only when the records of the accusations made toward Franciscan fathers of St Anthony s Seminary in Santa Barbara did Moody address head on this deeply held secret that he shares the guilt. Joy unspeakable book I studied writing with Moody in the 90s and have admired him ever since both as a writer and a teacher Perhaps this was painful to read for that reason.
Unspeakable joyja period
A brave and eye opening memoir by a writer who has stood on both sides of the wall between the public and the Catholic Church Kirkus Reviews I admire this book as much as any book I ve recently read and I admire it the most of any of Moody s superb books It s a brilliant investigation of the space between essay and fiction and in that space is located all the world s woe that attaches to a lapsed Catholic than whom no one is Catholic The book s conception is stunning the prose is crystalline and the vertiginous fall through layer after layer of epistemological uncertainty is not only extremely revelatory of the narrator s psyche but a real contribution to the contemporary discussion of the inherent instability of composition memory and memoir David Shields author of SALINGER and HOW LITERATURE SAVED MY LIFE The memoir of a lapsed Catholic ex seminarian who bore unwitting witness to the beginnings of decades long rampant serial sexual abuse by Catholic priests of the young seminarians in their care this book explores the peculiar uniquely Catholic landscape of denial ignorance repression and reverence that allowed priests to abuse children throughout the latter half of the twentieth century with no danger of detection Fred Moody entered the seminary at age 14 in 1963 and left after four years dimly aware that some deep undefinable wrong lurked there It would be another twenty five years before an abuse victim from Moody s former seminary would report his own victimization to the police whose subsequent investigation would uncover abuse going all the way back to Moody s days there Reading the resulting investigators reports and lawsuit documents Moody finds that he recognizes many of the anonymous victims who were classmates and even in some cases close friends How could he not have known Moody s attempt to answer that question leads him to thoroughly plumb both investigation documents and his own memories forcing him to disturbing conclusions about his own culpability the culpability of the institutional Catholic Church and the culpability of the Catholic community of faith all of whom participated in a culture that made detection of these crimes impossible Moody s book depicts young twentieth century seminarians with their ignorance of sexual matters their troubled sexual self identities their isolation and their unquestioning obedience to priestly authority as perfect victims and the wider Catholic community of his time as a perfect breeding ground for sexual predation To the question How could this have happened this memoir supplies an answer in the form of a detailed story of an institution the seminary that now has been phased out of existence and that seems today to be something out of a medieval time Yet it is also the story of a modern Church that continues to perpetuate many of the beliefs and practices that fostered and protected the sexual predators who operated the seminaries of Moody s time and thus challenges the contemporary reader both to atone for the sins visited upon these victims and to take steps now to ensure that such predations never happen again under the cloak of Holy Mother Church Unspeakable Joy
The format of this book light and airy with plenty of space between short entries belies the content It is a massively heavy read. Unspeakable joy in the bible Moody attended almost four years of seminary two separate schools in the 1960s Finally in 2013 he self publishes this first hand account of a seminary student who was not abused but I was disturbed by the damages perpetrated in those seminaries than I thought I could be This is a haunting and artfully structured memoir that will leave you in a different place from the one you were in before reading it 1490354409
| Unspeakable Joy By Fred Moody |
| 1490354409 |
| 9781490354408 |
| English |
| 258 |
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