The Shocking True Story of a Beautiful Actress Possessed and Tortured by a Catholic Priest!
Just as the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal slips off the front page, along comes Maria Ferrara Pema and her new book, Anatomy of a Life Possessed, the autobiography of an aristocratic actress who was possessed and tortured by a Catholic priest for 27 years. This book has been accepted by Barnes & Noble for distribution throughout its retail network, and is backed by a marketing campaign that will make it one of the most talked-about books of the summer.
A star in the Warsaw Ballet, Maria fled to Italy, where she acted in Fellini. City of Women and socialized with actors such as Roman Polanski, Maximilian Shell and Richard Burton. But the terrors the Nazis and Communists visited upon her family in Poland were nothing compared to what the Catholic Church had waiting for her in Italy.
In an effort to perform a miracle leading to sainthood, a priest named Friar G. attempted to transfer the illness of a paralyzed boy onto the unsuspecting Maria. Sound preposterous? You haven't heard the half of it. What followed was 27 years of psychological and sexual torture, graphically documented in the first half of this book.
The second half is for those who think Maria is making this up. Maria's struggle to rid herself of this possession led to documents about a Vatican investigation into Friar G.'s mentor -- the recently-canonized Padre Pio -- whom the Catholic Church accused of brainwashing and sexually abusing female parishioners as well as intimidating parishioners during confession in order to attribute miracles to him that he had never performed. As the shocking truth is slowly revealed, you simply will not believe the cover-up by the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
Just as the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal slips off the front page, along comes Maria Ferrara Pema and her new book, Anatomy of a Life Possessed, the autobiography of an aristocratic actress who was possessed and tortured by a Catholic priest for 27 years. This book has been accepted by Barnes & Noble for distribution throughout its retail network, and is backed by a marketing campaign that will make it one of the most talked-about books of the summer.
A star in the Warsaw Ballet, Maria fled to Italy, where she acted in Fellini. City of Women and socialized with actors such as Roman Polanski, Maximilian Shell and Richard Burton. But the terrors the Nazis and Communists visited upon her family in Poland were nothing compared to what the Catholic Church had waiting for her in Italy.
In an effort to perform a miracle leading to sainthood, a priest named Friar G. attempted to transfer the illness of a paralyzed boy onto the unsuspecting Maria. Sound preposterous? You haven't heard the half of it. What followed was 27 years of psychological and sexual torture, graphically documented in the first half of this book.
The second half is for those who think Maria is making this up. Maria's struggle to rid herself of this possession led to documents about a Vatican investigation into Friar G.'s mentor -- the recently-canonized Padre Pio -- whom the Catholic Church accused of brainwashing and sexually abusing female parishioners as well as intimidating parishioners during confession in order to attribute miracles to him that he had never performed. As the shocking truth is slowly revealed, you simply will not believe the cover-up by the Vatican and the Catholic Church.