The New York Times bestseller«[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption» – National Catholic Reporter
«I urge every Catholic to read it, however difficult that may be […] The book did not surprise me, as such, but it still stunned, shocked, and disgusted me. You simply cannot unread it, or banish what is quite obviously true from your mind […] This may seem like hyperbole, but in my view, the last drops of moral authority the Vatican might hope to have evaporate with this book.» – Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
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«On the Quest of Sodom» (in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew)
Selected international media coverage. Articles are organized by language and in reverse chronological order.
– ENGLISH –
• Long review by Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine.
• Review by English priest and theologian James Alison on ABC.com : long review and analysis here.
• Review by Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford, in The Times (UK). (PDF version here).
• Review by the former head of Dominicans, Thimothy Radcliffe for The Tablet.
• Review by writer Colm Tóibín in the London Review of Books (Jan 2021).
• F. Martel, « Catholics Don’t Like the Truth, A Response to My Critics », Syndicate, June 2019.
• F. Martel, « McCarick, what happened ? », cover article in The Tablet, Nov 2020.
• « How Catholic clergy ruled alongside the ‘gay mafia’, despots, and rent boys in Latin America », ABC, July 2019.
• Irish Times, Ireland. March 2nd.
• Australian Financial Review, Australia. February 23rd.
• The Guardian, UK. February 21st.
• Syndicate Network, USA. February 20th.
• The New York Times, USA. February 17th.
• Cover and 6 pages in The Times, UK. February 16th.
• The Guardian, UK. February 12th.
– ITALIAN –
• Long interview in MicroMega, by Matteo Gemolo, March 2019.
• FanPage, video, March 27 : Papa in Campidoglio: « Patto Vaticano-M5s, sostegno in cambio astensione su adozioni per coppie gay » (+ 300.000 vues)
• F. Martel, « Catholics Don’t Like the Truth, A Response to My Critics », Syndicate, June 2019. (in english but with long information on the italian « vaticanists »).
• Dazebao News, March 29.
• Gionata, March 28.
• Union, March 25.
• Manifesto. February 22nd.
• Tempi. February 21st.
• Republicca (Web TV). February 21st.
• 24 Ore. February 20th.
• Vanity Fair. February 20th.
• Press Conference at Stampa Estera. February 20th.
• HuffPost. February 18th.
• Tio, Switzerland. February 18th.
• il Fatto Quotidiano. February 17th.
• La Repubblica. February 16th.
• Corriere della Serra. An article by Stefano Montefiori. February 15th.
• La Repubblica. An article by Paolo Rodari. February 14th.
• Il Giornale. February 14th.
• La Stampa. February 14th.
– SPANISH (SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA) –
• « Bienvenido a mi mundo…! Notas sobre la recepción de un bombazo« , James Alison, teólogo (en español).
• « Columna de Fréderic Martel: Juan Pablo II, el ‘Papa malo’, su legado en debate », La Tercera, Nov 2020.
• Mexico : « Los saca del clóse », Reforma, Dec 2019.
• « Ser gay en el Vatican » : prologue, first chapter of Sodoma : Perfil, April 2019.
• Mexico : Interview with Guillermo Osorno, « La Iglesia Católica se ha convertido en una organización mayoritariamente gay », Horizontal, April 25, 2019.
• Spain : Long article by Carlos Primo in El Pais, Section: Icon, May 2019.
• Long article (in english) by Alan Weedon about the scandals in Mexico (Marcial Maciel), Chile (Karadima), Argentina (Pio Laghi), Colombia (Lopez Trujillo) : « How Catholic clergy ruled alongside the ‘gay mafia’, despots, and rent boys in Latin America », ABC Australia, July 2019.
• Argentina : « Investigación: el libro que que deja al descubierto a la iglesia homosexual », Revista Noticias, April 2009.
• Spain : El Diario / EFE : « Martel cree que el papa entra en contradicción al reestructurar la Iglesia », April 2019.
• Argentina : « Sodoma, el objeto sociológico », Marcos Carbonelli, a sociologist specialized in religion and politics : article, April 2019
• Chile : 24 Horas : TVN (public TV) with Carolina Escobar, April 2019.
• Chile : Canal 13 (TV) with Constanza Santa María, April 2019.
• Chile : Radio, T13 Radio with Constanza Santa María, April 2019.
• Argentina : Television TN with Miriam Lewin, April 2019.
• Argentina : Radio Metro, with Nicolás Artusi, April 2019.
• Colombia: Revista Semana, April 2019.
• Colombia : El Espectador, April 2019.
• Uruguay : « La iglesia gay: con Frédéric Martel, autor de la investigación Sodoma », La Daria, April 2019.
• Chile : Interferencia : “La Nunciatura de Sodano fue infiltrada por agentes de Pinochet y Karadima” (interview with Carlos Tromben), April 21, 2019.
• Chile : revue Santiago, « Todo el mundo sabía sobre Karadima y todo el mundo lo protegía. La homosexualidad es la matriz principal de explicación de todo el sistema. », April 2019.
• Chile : Radio BioBio with Nibaldo Mosciatti. Podcast here. April 2019.
• Chile : TV program « Mentiras Verdaderas », La Red, with Eduardo Fuentes, April 2019 : full program ; excerpts.
• Chile : Cadena Nactional, Via X with Iván Guerrero.
• Chile : Radio ADN with Mirna Schindler
• Chile : La Tercera, with Juan Paulo Iglesias.
• Chile : La Tercera. Video here. April 2018
• Argentina : « El Closet del Vaticano », by Adrian Melo in Página 12 (Argentina), April 14, 2019.
• Argentina : Patricia Kolesnicov, Clarín, April 2019.
• Spain : « Son muchos los obispos españoles que siguen encerrados en el armario », El Diario, interview by Jesús Bastante, April 11.
• Argentina : « Quién soy yo para juzgar?« , Anfibia, Buenos Aires, April 2019 : El sociólogo y periodista francés Frédéric Martel escribió “Sodoma: Poder y escándalo en el Vaticano”, una investigación de más de cuatro años en la que abordó la homosexualidad en el clero, y provocó un sismo dentro de la Iglesia Católica. En este adelanto del libro analiza las distintas posturas que el Papa Francisco tomó en el tema, las interpretaciones de sus exégetas y las disputas dentro del colegio cardenalicio. Aqui.
• Spain : El Mundo. March 3rd.
• Spain : TV Público, Madrid, Entrevista con el autor, March 18.
• Spain : Shangay, LGBT magazine, Entrevista con el autor, March.
• Spain : Vanity Fair. March.
• Radio program at Radio 3 Spain, Madrid, by Jorge Barriuso (podcast here).
• Video, « Vaticano gay en 555 páginas » : Playground News. February 25th.
• Argentina : TN, February 25th.
• Chile : La Tercera. February 23rd.
• Chile : La Tercera by Óscar Contardo. February 23
• Spain : Religion Digital. February 22nd.
• Spain : Vanguardia. February 21st.
• Chile : Publimetro. February 21st.
• BBC Mundo (reprocuded in T13 and La Tercera in Chile). February 21st.
• Argentina : Pagina 12. February 21st.
• Chile : TN. February 21st.
• Peru : El Comerico. February 21st.
• Colombia : W Radio. February 21st.
• Colombia : El Tiempo. February 21st.
• Mexico : Tribuna. February 21st.
• Spain-Catalunya : ARA. February 20th
• Argentina : La Nacion. February 20th.
• Uruguay : El Observador. February 20th.
• Argentina : Urgente 24. February 20th.
• Colombia : Semana. February 19th.
• Chile : The Clinic. February 19th.
• Spain : El Diaro. February 19th.
• Spain : EFE. February 18th.
• Spain : El Pais. February 18th. An article by Marc Bassets.
• US/LATAM : CNN en Español. February 15th.
• Argentina : Clarin, February 14th. Page one and large article by Juan Brodersen.
– CATALAN –
• Ara, November 2020.
• Ara. March 8th, 2019.
– GERMAN (AND GERMAN SWITZERLAND) –
The book has been published in Germany, Austria, German Switzerland in Sept 25, 2019 by S. Fischer.
• Kirche und Schule, September 2020.
• Zeitzeichen, June, 2020
• Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec 19, 2019.
• Publik Forum, Nov 22, 2019.
• Furche (a catholic weekly in Austria), Oct 17, 2019.
• SuddeutscheZeitung, Oct 15, 2019.
• Main German TV, TTT, ARD, Sept 29, 2019.
• Die Press, Sept 25, 2019 (Austria).
• NZZ am Sonntag, Sept 22, 2019.
• NZZ am Sonntag, April 21, 2019.
• Tages Anzeiger. February 19th.
• Die Zeit. February 17th.
– PORTUGUESE (PORTUGAL & BRAZIL) –
• Brazil : Father James Alison’s long article in portuguese : “No Armário do Vaticano: Poder, homossexualidade e hipocrisia”, por James Alison (Alison is a well-known theologian). See also the conference on YouTube, by the same author.
• Brazil : « A hipocrisia no Vaticano », Exibição em 25 de Ago de 2019, Globo News’ show Milenio : O’Globo.
• Brazil : O’ Globo, June 30, 2019.
• Brazil : Folha de S. Paulo, June 30, 2019.
• Brazil : Valor, June 2019. (PDF here).
• Brazil : Long interview for Fausto Mag, June 2019 (em português ; in english).
• Portugal : Observador, February 28th.
• Portugal : Diaro de Noticias, February 28th.
• Portugal : Publico, February 26th.
• Portugal : Page one, cover and long article in Visao, the main portuguese magazine.
– DUTCH (NETHERLANDS) –
• « Sodoma, Het geheim van het Vaticaan », Historieck, by Mark Barrois, June 2019.
• NCR in Amsterdam.
• ND/NL, March 2019.
• F. Martel, « Catholics Don’t Like the Truth, A Response to My Critics », Syndicate, June 2019. (in english)
– POLISH – (Sodoma has been a best-seller in Poland for almost a year, more than 90.000 copies have been already sold)
• Gazeta Wyborcza (op’ed), May 30, 2020.
• TV24, April 13, 2019.
• WP Ksiazki Magazine, April 9.
• »Stanisław Dziwisz przekazywał Janowi Pawłowi II to, co chciał. Jaką mógł mieć rolę w ukrywaniu skandali seksualnych? », by Mirosław Wlekły, Gazeta Wyborcza, April 5th.
• Polityka, March 29
• Gazeta Wyborcza, March 23.
• Politkya. February 26th.
• Wyborcza. February 25th.
– SWEDISH –
• Sändaren (Sweden). March 2019.
– CROATIAN –
– AUSTRALIA –
• « How Catholic clergy ruled alongside the ‘gay mafia’, despots, and rent boys in Latin America », ABC Australia, July 2019.
• Australian Book Review, March 2019.
• Australian Financial Review, Australia. February 23rd.
• F. Martel, « Catholics Don’t Like the Truth, A Response to My Critics », Syndicate, June 2019.
– NEW ZEALAND –
• The New Zealand Listener, March 2019 (PDF, 5 pages).
– AFRICA –
• Spotlight Africa, March 2019 (by Anthony Egan, SJ)
– ISRAEL –
• Cover and 3 pages in Haaretz, main daily newspaper, Israel, March 2019.