Remember that celibacy means unmarried.
. . . most Catholic clerics can limbo under that.
. . . most Catholic clerics can limbo under that.
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A Benedictine monk-turned-counselor and psychotherapist, Richard Sipe has spent his life searching for the origins, meanings, and dynamics of religious celibacy. He spent 18 years serving the Church as a Benedictine monk and was trained to deal with the mental health problems of priests and other Catholic Church officials.
Sipe has now been married for the past 34 years and has one son. Both as a priest and a married man he has taught in major Catholic seminaries and lectured at medical schools. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in over 200 cases of clergy sexual abuse of minors since 1992.
Sipe has written six previous books on religious celibacy including:
Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse
Living the Celibate Life (Ligouri 2004),
Celibacy in Crisis (2003) and
Sex, Priests & Power: the Anatomy of a Crisis (Brunner/ Routledge (1995)
Celibacy: A Way of Living, Loving & Serving (1996)
and his now classic 1990 study, A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy.
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