Jason Berry


Jason Berry is an American investigative reporter based in New Orleans, an author and film director.
He is known for pioneering investigative reporting on sexual abuse in the priesthood of the Catholic Church.

Life

He attended Jesuit High School in New Orleans, graduating in 1966.
Berry is a graduate of Georgetown University.
His book Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children was the first major book on this issue. His 2004 book Vows of Silence deals with the sexual abuse of Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, and the cover-up of that abuse. The author also adapted Vows of Silence into a film.
His latest book is Render Unto Rome The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church.
Berry has been frequently interviewed in national media in the United States, has worked as a consultant for ABC News, and contributed to the National Public Radio and is a speaker on sexual abuse issues and popular culture.
He has also written books on popular music.

Awards

Berry won his first Catholic Press Association Award in 1986 for his original coverage in the National Catholic Reporter of the clergy sexual-abuse scandals in Louisiana. He was awarded his second in 1993 for the publication of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children.
He was a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for his reportage of David Duke. He and his wife live in New Orleans.
Berry won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992, covering Louisiana's political demagogues.

Books