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April 3, 2007

About the authors… Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse

Thomas P. Doyle is a Dominican priest with a doctorate in canon law and five master’s degrees. He sacrificed a rising career at the Vatican Embassy to become one of the most vocal supporters of victims of sexual abuse by the clergy. He is Voice of the Faithful’s first recipient of the “Priest of Integrity Award.

A.W. Richard Sipe is a counselor and psychotherapist who spent 18 years serving the Church as a Benedictine monk. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in more than 200 cases of clerical sexual abuse and has written several renowned works on religious celibacy including his landmark study of sexuality and celibacy.

Patrick J. Wall was a Benedictine monk and priest for 11 years, but renounced his vows in 1998 because he was disheartened by the abuse within the Church. Today, he is a respected theologian serving as senior legal consultant for a California law firm, advising hundreds of clerical sexual abuse cases across the United States.