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Download or read book Telling Truths in Church written by Mark D. Jordan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in church-and the difficulty of telling any truths-will be a balm and a revelation.