Celibacy in Crisis

A Secret World Revisited

Celibacy in Crisis

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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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Reverend Richard P. McBrien

PART I. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

1. WHY STUDY CELIBACY?

Sex/Celibacy: Breaking the taboo · The broader context · The study: what it is and what it is not · Reasons for this study

2. WHAT IS IT?

Factors of the Crisis · The meanings of celibacy · Abstinence · Law and ideal · Christ the ideal · Love · Definition of Celibacy

3. HOW DO THOSE WHO PROFESS CELIBACY PRACTICE IT?

Levels of Observation · Numerical Summary · Estimates of Sexual Behavior · Narratives

PART II. PRACTICE VERSUS PROFESSION

4. THE MASTURBATIONS

Nature · Pathology · Maturity and immaturity · Nocturnal emissions · Fasting · Spontaneous emissions · Vice and virtue · Guilt

5. PRIESTS AND WOMEN

The heterosexual presumption · Splitting and secrecy · Heterosexual relationships · Heterosexual behaviors · Patterns of association

6. WHEN PRIESTS BECOME FATHERS

Births · Abortion

7. THE HOMOSEXUALITIES

Homosexualities and the clergy · Denial of the homosocial structure · The male matrix · The system of secrecy · Developmental questions and variations · Alcoholism · Acquired immune deficiency syndrome · Homosexuality and mental health

8. SEXUAL COMPROMISES

What is normal? · The place of women · Fear of women · What is pornography? · Exhibitionistic behavior · Transvestism · Priests and animals · Suffering and sexual violence

PART III. THE HEART OF THE CRISIS

9. PRIESTS AND MINORS

What is pedophilia? · Frequency of Occurrence · Social ramifications of abuse · Causes · Avenues of access · Behaviors · Victims-the aftermath · Treatment · Awareness of the problem · The future

10. WHO ABUSES?

Psychological profile · Categories of vulnerability · Four case studies

11. CAN CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE BE PREVENTED?

Screening · Denial · Ecclesiogenic factors · Systemic elements · Mandatory celibacy · Ethical code · Impediments to ethical definitions · Elements of a code of sexual ethics

PART IV. PROCESS AND ATTAINMENT

12. LIVING WITH CELIBACY

What is the process of celibacy? · Developmental relationships · Internalization · Temporal stages

13. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CELIBACY

Essential elements of celibate achievement · Who will follow? · The crisis of abuse

EPILOGUE: DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS The seven pillars of the crisis

References

Index

Acknowledgments

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