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Article: Religious differences between married and celibate clergy: does celibacy make a difference?(The Roman Catholic Priesthood)
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Within the Roman Catholic Church, there has been a long tradition of a celibate clergy. The pros and cons of the practice have been debated for nearly two millennia. This tradition posits a theology that a married person has a conflict of interest between religious commitments and familial responsibilities.
With this tradition still in place in Catholicism, are the reasons for celibacy empirically verifiable? Two questions that this paper addresses are: Are celibate clergy more religious than the married clergy? Are celibate clergy more involved in the lives of their parishioners than are the married clergy? The hypotheses of this paper are: Celibate clergy are not ...
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