Fallen Order: Intrigue, Heresy, and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and CaravaggioGrove Press, 2004 - 336 pages For hundreds of years the Piarist Order of priests has been known for its history of important contributions to education, science, and culture. Throughout Italy, Spain, and central Europe, the order's schools evolved from shelters created to educate poor children into exclusive private academies. Thousands of children were educated at Piarist schools, including Mozart, Goya, Schubert, Victor Hugo, Johann Mendel, and a host of astronomers, kings, emperors, presidents, even a pope. Yet in 1646, the Piarist Order was abruptly abolished by Pope Innocent X, an unprecedented step not seen since the Knights of Templar were suppressed for heresy in the fourteenth century. Fallen Order is the stunning story of how the sexual abuse of children, practiced by some of the leading priests in the order, led to the Piarists' collapse. Karen Leibreich spent several years researching in the order's archives and in the Vatican Secret Archive, and discovered how the founder of the Piarist Order, Father Jose de Calasanz (later honored as the patron saint of Catholic schools) knew of the scandal and tried to keep it a secret. Cardinals and bishops actively participated in the cover-up in an effort to protect the reputation of an important cleric with influential family connections. The complicity of abuse went as far as the pontiff himself, when Pope Innocent X appointed a man known to be a prolific child abuser in charge of an order dedicated to the education of children. Although the Piarist Order was suppressed when the scandal eventually became public, it was later revived and is still in existence today, its turbulent past ignored. A brilliant portrait of seventeenth-century Rome, and the politics, personal rivalries, and Byzantine workings of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, Fallen Order is an explosive account of a history of cover-ups, deception, and shuttling known abuser priests from school to school that is frighteningly similar to the Catholic Church's response to child abuse in the priesthood today. - Publisher. |
Table des matières
A patchwork city of strangers I | 1 |
Little beasts or untrained animals | 15 |
If I had 10000 priests now | 28 |
A touch on his breeches | 47 |
Be very careful in your dealings with the pupils | 56 |
The worst vice | 63 |
Prayer and penitence have been cast aside | 81 |
This is really going to be a troublesome affair | 95 |
Just a case of brotherly persecution | 141 |
Galileo is the most important man in the world | 152 |
You are prisoners of the Inquisition | 165 |
Do you know anything scandalous about your superiors? | 183 |
Unworthy of such a position | 206 |
We are in a most confused silence | 233 |
Notes | 271 |
A Note on the Sources | 305 |
How can the Holy Spirit be in such a house? | 112 |
See that this business does not become public | 121 |
Touching the shameless parts is not a sin | 134 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
abuse accused Alacchi Albizzi Ambrogio Annot apostolic visitor appointed archbishop archives Archivum Scholarum Piarum assessor August Barberini behaviour bishops boys Brother Calasanz wrote Campanella Carcare Cardinal Castelli Catholic CHAPTER Cherubini Church clerics colleagues Congregation Ep.IV Ep.V Ep.VII Epco Fanano Father Berro Father Calasanz Father Clemente Father Francesco Father Mario Father Mario Sozzi Father Melchiorre Father Pietrasanta Father Stefano Cherubini favour February Florence Florentine Francesco Barberini Frascati Galileo Genoa Giner Guerri Giovan Giovanni Grand Duke headmaster Holy Office Inquisition inquisitor Italy January Jesuit later letter Meanwhile Medici Michelini Moncallero and Limiti Monsignor Monsignor Albizzi Muzzarelli Naples Nazarene College nephew Nicolò Maria November novice October palace papal Piarist Order Piarist schools Piazza Pietrasanta Pious Schools pope Positio priests provincial pupils religious Roman Rome San Pantaleo scandal Scoma sent September sexual Signor Society of Jesus teachers teaching Tuscan Vatican Venice Vincenzo Berro writing
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