Article: Celibacy: Gift or Law? A Critical Examination.

Article: Celibacy an important tradition in many cultures
Charleston Gazette;  April 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... abiding interest in the opposite of sex - celibacy. The practice is in the spotlight these ... Church should allow married priests. But celibacy actually has been followed in many cultures ... celebrated in a 1999 book, "Sensual Celibacy," which advises women exiting failed ...

Article: Celibacy, Culture, and Society: the Anthropology of Sexual ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... ELISA J. & SANDRA BELL (eds). Celibacy, culture, and society: the anthropology ... anthropological attempt at problematizing celibacy from a cross-cultural perspective ... theoretical approaches to the practice of celibacy. In their introduction, the editors ...

Article: CELIBACY COULD MAKE PRIESTS EXTINCT.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ...STRICT celibacy laws could drive the priesthood to extinction ... growing campaign for a review in Catholic celibacy laws. Figures show the number of young ... We asked 41 priests for their views on celibacy and more than half of those who agreed ...

Article: Celibacy for Beginners; Yes, It's an Issue, but It's Not ...
The Washington Post;  March 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the headlines, the notion of priestly celibacy has become the subject of talk radio ... And barring unforeseen circumstances, celibacy is likely to be around in the American ... come. The popular view seems to be that celibacy reflects a hatred and contempt for sexuality ...

Article: Celibacy; a precious gift.
Catholic Insight;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Celibacy in the Latin rite continues to be under ... priests of 1995 that "the vocation to celibacy needs to be consciously protected ... Council has been served on the subject of celibacy by some of its purported defenders. A ...

Article: CELIBACY: 'DEAD END' -- OR COMMITMENT? ATLANTA SCANDALS ...
The Boston Globe;  August 9, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... fueled the debate over the Roman Catholic Church's celibacy rule. "The situation speaks far more to a failure ... Corpus, a national organization that opposes the celibacy rule. "Celibacy is a dead end," Bonnike said. "This particular ...

Article: Celibacy today: mystery, myth, and miasma.(Report)
Cross Currents;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... its power. --Mayke de Jong (1). Celibacy, popularly understood, is the state ... lifetime or even for very extended periods. Celibacy is unlike other modes of asceticism ... fact that the ideal and the practice of celibacy exist in many religious traditions ...