He also has a deep understanding of human psychology, which enables him to write sympathetically about why people are complicit in the 'culture of silence'-even detailing instances when he has participated in such silent conspiracies himself. Cozzens, who was in seminary during Vatican II but whose education was 'decidedly pre-conciliar,' has a gift for placing contemporary debates within a longer historical frame of discussion. He explains how the misplaced loyalties of those in leadership positions created the current crisis. Donald Cozzens looks at various challenges and the scandal gripping the Church and offers an historical overview of our church leadership. He was the oldest of four children born to Bernard and Florence (Gaye) Cozzens. Donald Cozzens looks at various challenges and the scandal gripping the Church and offers an historical overview of our church leadership. Sacred Silence is a book about failed leadership in the Catholic Church. COZZENS, FATHER DONALD (May 17, 1939-December 9, 2021) was a priest, professor, and author who wrote about contemporary issues in the Catholic Church. 'How is it that a church that is the bearer of the Word and the champion of the oppressed can maintain unholy silences while denying that obvious pastoral and ecclesial problems, indeed crises, exist?' Cozzens answers that pressing question with a call for the Roman Catholic Church to break through its wall of silence and acknowledge its leadership problems with 'redemptive honesty.' What follows is a sensible and thorough discussion of some of the hot-button issues facing the Church: 'the perennial muting of women's voices,' the crisis of vocations, the well-publicized sexual abuse scandals, the numbers of gay men in the priesthood. Sacred Silence is a book about failed leadership in the Catholic Church.

Sacred Silence by Donald Cozzens