Berry, Jason, Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, University of Illinois Press, 2000.

This book, originally published when the abuse story was first surfacing in 1992, is considered a classic in the study of what went wrong with the priesthood in the last half of the twentieth century.

Calhoun, Ada, “Bryony Lavery and John Patrick Shanley Dish about Religion,” in New York Magazine, September 13, 2004, p. 61.

In a joint interview, Shanley and the playwright Bryony Lavery (Last Easter) consider the place that religion has in their works.

Foster, David Ruel, ed., The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on “Fides et Ratio,” Catholic University of America Press, 2003.

In 1998, Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical, Fides et Ratio, proclaiming that reason and faith do not have to be considered separately but can be found together in Catholicism. The essays in this...