Laure McCourt Lopez Book Review: "No Longer on Pedestals"
In life, there are subjects that one may find
difficult to discuss and then there are those topics that create such an
emotional upheaval within the soul that few dare venture to acknowledge
let alone give words to. Fortunately, a voice has been raised via Carol
Kuhnert, author of "No Longer on Pedestals," a book that exposes the
darkness that resided in the life of Carol's brother, Fr. Norman H.
Christian.
The purpose of the writing is made quite clear within the
journal's introduction: "My purpose in writing this book is to open the
minds and hearts of those who find it difficult to believe clergy have
been sexually abusing children for many decades and that the Catholic
Church has made protecting the abusers and the church's assets its
number-one priority, while leaving the victims, their families and
church members to fend for themselves in trying to heal, understand and
cope."
