ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Posted by Barbara Dorris on April 11, 2013

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author will be in St. Louis next week to discuss his new book that explores the clergy sex abuse and cover-up crisis.

Author Michael D’Antonio will be at Left Bank Books in downtown St. Louis where he will talk about his new book “Mortal Sins: Sex, Crimes and the Era of Catholic Scandal”. D’Antonio has also written biographies of famous chocolatier Milton Hershey and ex-boxer and self-taught PGA golfer Esteban Toledo.

Publisher’s Weekly has called the book “the definitive history of the Catholic Church’s most severe crisis since the reformation.” (http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-59489-3)

“If like me you’ve followed this story only glancingly and intermittently over the years, reading Mortal Sins – that is, discovering the full scale and scope and nature of the crimes and cover-ups –…