A detailed examination of the Catholic Church's remarkable failure to protect its primary source of income: the Sunday collections. The phenomenon of Sunday collection embezzlement in the Catholic... More > Church in America (the focus of this book) ultimately owes its existence to a decades-old decision on the part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to shun the Church-wide implementation of readily available, low-cost procedures that would virtually guarantee that every dollar placed in the collections is, in fact, deposited into the parish bank account.
No objective reader will walk away from this book with anything less than a stunning example of institutional nonfeasance. Most Catholics will also find themselves wondering: “Who or what purpose is being served by this colossal failure to act?”< Less
Our story chronicles the lives of three women from their childhood through adulthood. From the priest who told battered women to go home and satisfy their husbands to the one who embezzled church... More > funds, our heroines struggle to find the honorable ministers and vanquish the demons posing as righteous clergy. Though their faith is tested, they end up finding not only those ministers they are seeking, but much more through their friendship.< Less
Our story chronicles the lives of three women from their childhood through adulthood. From the priest who told battered women to go home and satisfy their husbands to the one who embezzled church... More > funds, our heroines struggle to find the honorable ministers and vanquish the demons posing as righteous clergy. Though their faith is tested, they end up finding not only those ministers they are seeking, but much more through their friendship.< Less
Some people use power to obtain sex; others use sex to obtain power. Dallas businessman, Jefferson Watters, has power, wealth and prestige. Karen Burns has the looks and charm to get men to do what... More > she wants. Lawyer Arizona Reed must determine who is telling the truth: Karen, his friend, or Watters, his respected church leader. His quest for the truth will lead him from a sexual harassment claim to a complicated embezzlement scheme, an unexplained accident, an unsolved murder, and the unlikely alliance behind it all.
Water, fire, wind and earth combine to prove once again that those with power will almost always exercise Unrighteous Dominion.< Less
Some people use power to obtain sex; others use sex to obtain power. Dallas businessman, Jefferson Watters, has power, wealth and prestige. Karen Burns has the looks and charm to get men to do what... More > she wants. Lawyer Arizona Reed must determine who is telling the truth: Karen, his friend, or Watters, his respected church leader. His quest for the truth will lead him from a sexual harassment claim to a complicated embezzlement scheme, an unexplained accident, an unsolved murder, and the unlikely alliance behind it all.
Water, fire, wind and earth combine to prove once again that those with power will almost always exercise Unrighteous Dominion.< Less
A detailed examination of the Catholic Church's remarkable failure to protect its primary source of income: the Sunday collections. The phenomenon of Sunday collection embezzlement in the Catholic... More > Church in America (the focus of this book) ultimately owes its existence to a decades-old decision on the part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to shun the Church-wide implementation of readily available, low-cost procedures that would virtually guarantee that every dollar placed in the collections is, in fact, deposited into the parish bank account.
No objective reader will walk away from this book with anything less than a stunning example of institutional nonfeasance. Most Catholics will also find themselves wondering: “Who or what purpose is being served by this colossal failure to act?”< Less
When I read through this compendium of reflections, I see in all of it a constructive critical x-ray of a blessed Nation that has undergone systematic degradation. Cameroon is a Nation blessed with a... More > variety of natural and quality human resources. On the overall, some Cameroonians are peace-loving, law-abiding, patriotic and could even be termed God-fearing. But what accounts for the very high degree of poverty, corruption, bribery, embezzlement, multi-party electoral fraud, unemployment and decadence in all its forms? All of us Cameroonians are responsible for this brazen sad situation. We do not assume our roles and responsibilities adequately and we blame our situation on others. The Universal Church on whom we ought to count does not seem to be helping the situation either. Unspeakable indeed!< Less
