Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, a
The purpose of the book is to show that for Christians, both men and women, the single life is an option equally valid and honorable to marriage. It does so by examining the issue of celibacy through
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostit
Explains the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith - the historical background of virtually everything people find hard to understand about our Religion, such as priestly celibacy, sacred images, the Chu
In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the ?end” of the Catholic priesthood. Demands for an end to celibacy, coupled with calls for women’s ordin
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