Public dignity, private turmoil: an anthropological study of celibacy and sexual intimacy in the Roman Catholic Priesthood
In the Roman Catholic Church, membership of the priesthood is confined to males who are canonically required to observe perpetual continence in celibacy. This requisite is upheld by the belief that priests mediate between God and mankind and that their “supernatural” status, reflected in celibacy, t...
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Curtin University
2003
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/300 |