Detailing the effects of 9/11 on Catholic New Yorkers, “A Test of Faith” will serve as the book’s prologue. The end of the chapter introduces a second crisis–an internal one–that would shake the faith of the city’s believers for the next 20 years: the scourge of sex abuse at the hands of clergy members. Just … Continue reading Gotham and Gomorrah: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in New York City