“Unraveling the Shadowed Life of Father Earl Bierman: A Spiritual Struggle Against the Darkness Within”

"Unraveling the Shadowed Life of Father Earl Bierman: A Spiritual Struggle Against the Darkness Within"

The author, Gregory Flannery, entered a seminary to study for the priesthood, indirectly as a result of Bierman’s influence. Events there revealed a culture of depravity that manifested itself in ways that would rock the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and sink the prospects of the man who seemed destined to be the first American pope.

What happened in the small dioceses of Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, occurred before “clerical sexual abuse” was a common phrase, as familiar now as “chemical disaster” and “school shooting.” But the methodology of Bierman’s crimes, the elaborate efforts to keep them hidden and the shameful response of the hierarchy presaged what is happening in pews and cathedrals around the world today.

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