A unique ground-breaking book about the inner workings of the Vatican, intellectual freedom and a passionate and deeply held convictions that are central to the struggle now going on for the soul of Catholicism.
Through interviews with seven Catholic sisters and priests who have experienced a modern day "inquisition" into their beliefs by the Vatican, this book exposes the tensions and contradictions within the contemporary Catholic Church and the forces that have alienated many thinking Catholics from the policies of the Vatican.
A process shrouded in secrecy, those who are investigated by the papal inquisition are not told who their accusers are or who has been elected to defend them. Appalled by such lack of democratic process, for the first time the seven respected and highly influential sisters and priests in this book speak out in revealing detail about what actually happened to them.
Readers get a real and immediate sense of what it is like to be accused by anonymous informers, investigated in secret and tried at arm's length with no recourse to appeal.
