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Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in
the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of
celibacy.
A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family
Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses
its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects
of celibacy.
Richard Sipe examines the continuing sexual crisis facing the
Catholic Church today. Has the storm of publicity and controversy
caused the church to acknowledge any of the accusations? Will the
church accept statistical evidence or alter the way it trains its
clergy? How has it come to grips with reforming or retraining
abusers? Has it acknowledged the spread of AIDS among its ranks?
Why does the church oppress women and react with hostility and fear
towards them? Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis
addresses these and other questions.
This book analyzes the function and structure of a system that
exerts real power in an area of existence vital to human service,
happiness, and productivity: sexuality as it is understood by the
celibate/sexual teaching and practice of the Catholic Church.
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Courage at Three AM (Hardcover, 1st)
A.W.Richard Sipe; Contributions by Michael D'Antonio; Illustrated by Michael Morgenstern
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R789
Discovery Miles 7 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Courage at Three AM (Paperback, 1st)
A.W.Richard Sipe; Contributions by Michael D'Antonio; Illustrated by Michael Morgenstern
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R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Richard Sipe, himself a former monk and priest, has made a lifelong
venture of determining the reality and meaning of religious
celibacy. Even an adequate operational definition of religious
celibacy, he says, has been avoided and denied by Catholic
hierarchy and scholars to preserve "the celibate myth." Having
spent 25 years conducting a study of celibacy and sexual behavior
among Roman Catholic priests, Sipe concluded that at any one time
no more than 50 percent of priests were practicing celibacy. To
more fully understand what celibacy is, how it is practiced, the
effect it has on the humanness--the psychology and spirituality--of
men and women, and the social effects it presents, Sipe says we can
use the approach presented in this book. Specifically, we can
analyze historic men who presented themselves or were perceived as
living examples of celibacy--Gandhi, Coughlin, Sheen, and
Greely--and also focus on the "most profound" truths of celibacy
found in literary accounts, from Joyce and Hawthorne to Farrell and
Powers. Psychology, religion, and literary criticism interface and
are woven together in this book with minimal jargon. The Serpent
and the Dove was written in the hope of exciting honest analysis of
the essence of religious celibacy and to foster a recrudescence of
authentic sexual vigor with all of its evolutionary potential.
"Human sexuality is not going away; nor is it irrelevant to the
wellbeing, progress and happiness of the human community," says
Sipe. "And the practice of genuine celibacy is not going to
disappear either. No question, the Catholic Church needs profound
reformation. But in all my work I have chosen not to throw any
babies out with the horrendously dirty'holy water' the church
continues to treasure and disseminate. Here, as in all my work, I
try to foster dialogue between religion and science, such as
literary criticism. The Catholic Church (and religion) is at a
Copernican Moment when it has to cede to science the nature of
sexuality." The Serpent and the Dove is one more work among Sipe's
many books and articles making the need for that clear.
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