Description:
John Glatt's For I Have Sinned tells the compelling, lurid, and all-too-true stories of 11 clergy--priests, ministers, and even a former nun--who have committed murder. Each tale is told meticulously, providing motivations, details, and graphic descriptions of the killings. Although Glatt's conjectures about the internal dialogue of the killers stretch at times, his overall approach is clear and methodical. The common thread to most of these stories, apart from the killers' vocations, seems to be their sense of entitlement. They murder to save their reputations, to punish those who have wronged them. Most seem unduly concerned with their public images and ironically unconcerned about the consequences, both spiritual and legal, of their actions. The brutality and the selfishness of these murders stand out more than any spiritual or ethical motivations on the part of the murderers. Men and women of God, it would appear, kill for the same reasons that everyone else does: jealousy, revenge, and greed. --Lisa Higgins
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