His Catholic Priest in the United States: Psychological Investigations (1972), co-authored with Victor J. Heckler, is considered a landmark study that was prescient of the sex abuse crisis that broke into the public's awareness in 2002.[REF] .
In the late 1960's, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of the United States commissioned an extensive study of the life and ministry of the American Priest.