Father Joseph Brennan was an icon in the small North Dakota town of New London between 1953 and 1973. Brennan built a high school sports empire that won state championships and strengthened a sense of pride among the town’s thousand residents. But alongside the success story, another much darker tale was being written and ruthlessly suppressed. Sexual assault, theft, drug distribution, and blackmail ran rampant in Brennan’s secret life.
Today, we discuss the book ROMAN COLLAR CRIME: The Transgressions of a Small-Town Priest. The book is based on the controversial true story of one priest who held an entire community hostage for twenty years and the curious sportswriter who finally exposed two decades of heinous actions in small-town America.
Our guest is Charles Utter, an author on a mission to create a healthy, honest, and trustworthy faith environment for churches everywhere. Charles spent seven years teaching and coaching at the high school level before beginning a career in finance that would span nearly four decades. He shares his faith story with us today.
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