Catholic Clergy: Abuse of Power and Sexual Abuse
Case studies and historical research instruments (16th to early 20th centuries).

In Sol Serrano's words, this book is a historiographical piece on sexual and consciousness abuse by members of the Catholic clergy. Far from blunt and easy denunciation, the text delves into the complex relationship between priestly ordination, sacramental power, obedience of the faithful, ecclesiastical institutionalization, and hierarchical social relations in the modern and contemporary periods. Its itinerary seeks, by reading between the lines, to reach those who, being abused, appear as witnesses to the abuse and hardly as victims. We face a theoretical and methodological challenge to comprehend ecclesiastical abuses within the broader context of the relationship between power, violence, and vulnerability. A painful subject in which recent time requires long time.