Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited

By A.W. Richard Sipe

Book Overview

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415944724
• ISBN13: 9780415944724
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.5"

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. [...]