Public dignity, private turmoil: an anthropological study of celibacy and sexual intimacy in the Roman Catholic Priesthood

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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Main Author: Anderson, Jane Estelle
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2003
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/300

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