Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited

By A.W. Richard Sipe

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415944732
• ISBN13: 9780415944731
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Celibacy System Is No Longer a Secret

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. [...]