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Author: A. W. Richard Sipe
Publisher: Liguori Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892438747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelibacy explores the different questions about life, love and altruism through an insightful and revealing analysis of the essential elements of sexuality as they relate to celibacy. These include gender, orientation, degree of desire, object of excitation, developmental experiences, behaviors, relationships, patterns of integration, and identity.
Author: Maria Giura
Publisher: Apprentice House
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781627202145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen twenty-eight-year-old Maria Giura fell in love with Catholic priest Father James Infanzi, she had no idea how needy and angry they both were nor how complicated their attraction would become. His attention seemed to fill the void left by her fractured family, but he also seemed to be a sign for her to finally face the celibate vocation she'd been running from ever since she first felt God's call. Celibate focuses on her ten-year struggle to let go of this priest, to heal from her childhood, and to finally embrace her true calling. Fiercely honest and tender, this memoir is ultimately a story about surrender, forgiveness, and facing one's deepest needs.
Author: John Mark Falkenhain
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0814687970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2020 Association of Catholic Publishers second place award in general interest In this volume, Br. John Mark Falkenhain, OSB, a Benedictine monk and clinical psychologist, provides a well-researched and thorough program for celibacy formation for men and women, adaptable to both religious and seminary settings. Attending to the theological and the psycho-sexual dimensions of what it means to pursue a life of chaste celibacy, Br. John Mark identifies and expands on four major content areas, including motives for chaste celibacy, theological aspects of celibate chastity, sexual identity, and skills for celibate living. Formation goals and benchmarks for discernment are discussed for each content area, and implications and suggestions for ongoing formation are offered.
Author: Fr. Carter Griffin
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1949013332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The Church today demands a profound renewal of celibate priesthood and the fatherhood to which it is ordered.” Priestly celibacy, some say, is an outdated relic from another age. Others see it as a lonely way of life. But as Fr. Carter Griffin argues in Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, the ancient practice of celibacy, when lived well, helps a priest exercise his spiritual fatherhood joyfully and fruitfully. Along the way, Griffin explores: the question of optional celibacy some pitfalls of celibate paternity the selection and formation of candidates for celibate priesthood why biological fathers are also called to spiritual fatherhood the powerful impact of celibacy on the Church and the wider culture In a critical moment for the Catholic priesthood, Fr. Griffin brings light and hope with a new perspective on the Church’s perennial wisdom on celibacy.
Author: Mark A. Yarhouse
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0310521424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay--gay and straight Christians alike. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.
Author: Keith Clark
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780877933281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides thoughful presentations on what, for most people remain unexamined assumptions. Urges readers to seriously examine their own experience of being sexual and not fear its mystery and to recognize the necessity for intimacy in their lives. Reflects on the role of intimacy within religious communities and the fraternity of priests, and its role byond community.
Author: Donald B. Cozzens
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780814631607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCozzens explores priestly celibacy as a source of power and burden of obligation, as spiritual calling and gift of the Spirit. He affirms celibacy as a charism, a gift that is true for some, but only when received as a grace.
Author: A.W. Richard Sipe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1134001029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Janie Gustafson
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780060635367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Kahan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013-11-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0822377187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
