Priests In Love. Australian Catholic Clergy And Their Intimate Relationships

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: John Garratt
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 215 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the 1960s and 70s, thousands of Roman Catholic priests left the active ministry to get married. Nothing like this had been seen on this scale since the French Revolution, and before that since the Reformation. Now a different phenomenon seems to be at work: priests who have formed long-time, intimate sexual friendships. These men are not pedophiles or sexual abusers. They are adult, mature men who can no longer find a rationale for a life of obligatory celibacy and enter into responsible sexual relationships. Some of them are straight, some gay. Based on interviews, conducted over a nine-year period, with 50 Australian priests, Priests in Love tells the stories of these priests and their friends. It deals with the moral, psychological, and social challenges they face on the less traveled road of social change. >

ISBN: 9781920721176