Fallen Order - a history
By Karen Liebreich
Published by Atlantic Books, UK, 2004
Paperback large, NEW (C20)
NZ$18.00
‘Fallen Order’ is the previously untold account of the first child sex scandal in the history of the Catholic Church. In 1621 the Piarist Order was founded to house & educate the poor children of Rome. These schools flourished and spread throughout Catholic Europe. Yet in 1646 the order was abruptly abolished by the pope amid rumours of a great scandal…seems as though not much has changed over the centuries…