Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited
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In the midst of the worst crisis the Catholic Church has seen in almost 500 years, this book challenges Catholic authorities to renew, rethink, or reform the long-standing institution of celibacy. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415944732
ISBN13:9780415944731
Release Date:December 2003
Publisher:Routledge
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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Celibacy System Is No Longer a Secret
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Richard Sipe, a former Roman Catholic priest, blows the lid off of the secret world of so-called celibacy in the US Catholic church. This tome brings you right up to date on how the celibacy system is used by a significant number of priests to sexually abuse minors and the cover-up that follows is well documented. The current scandals in the Boston and Los Angeles Arch Dioceses are exposed in shocking detail. This is a book of facts weened from the interviews of over 1,500 sexually active priests that scared me half to death. I was quite shaken after reading it. [...]
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