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At the crossroads of personal rupture and global reckoning, this book chronicles one woman’s journey from the silence of child/clergy sexual abuse to speaking at the United Nations. In prose both raw and luminous, the author traces her battle escaping an abusive marriage after her public disclosure of childhood abuse, and her unlikely ascent through Harvard Divinity School to a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Woven through these pages are the voices that steadied her—David F. Holland, her brother, God, and ancestors—and the convictions that drive her: that religious institutions must be held to account, that parish archives belong to the people they record, and that healing is a right, not a privilege. Moving between the LDS and Italian Catholic hierarchies, she exposes systems that prize reputation over moral ethics, even as she insists on staying in the “trenches” to help remake them. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book invites readers into a spiritual commons where transcendence is shared, not gated; where genealogies mend broken stories; and where the long-suppressed testimonies of survivors bend the moral arc toward justice. It is, ultimately, a call to listen, believe, and act. For more information on Suzie E. Greco and her story, visit her website: The Stone Sphere.

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Paperback. 272 Pages.

Published: June, 2025

ISBN: 979-8-9920194-2-1

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Weight 17 oz
Dimensions 9 × 6 × 1 in
Table of Contents

Note to Reader
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Stone Sphere
Chapter 3: Attachment Bonds
Chapter 4: Mission to Scotland
Chapter 5: Marriage, Blindly following Pattern
Chapter 6: Alexithymia and Amnesia
Chapter 7: The Denial
Chapter 8: Losing Caterina
Chapter 9: The Arrest
Chapter 10: Ministering Angels
Chapter 11: Education on Incest
Chapter 12: The Interview
Chapter 13: Mentors
Chapter 14: Fallen Angels
Chapter 15: Patience
Chapter 16: Caterina's Wedding
Chapter 17: Narcissism
Chapter 18: Marital Rape
Chapter 19: Life's Mission
Chapter 20: DNA Testing
Chapter 21: The Investigation
Chapter 22: Divorce Proceedings
Chapter 23: Freedom is Never Free
Chapter 24: Trauma and Spirituality
Bibliography
Index

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