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Article: Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life. (Reviewed: celibacy is keystone of religious life).(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 22, 2002
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SELLING ALL COMMITMENT, CONSECRATED CELIBACY, AND COMMUNITY IN CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS LIFE By Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM Paulist, 471 pages, $24.95
In this second volume of her projected three-volume study of Catholic religious life in a postmodern world, Sr. Sandra Schneiders offers a wide-ranging exploration of the subjects of commitment, consecrated celibacy and community. These are, for her, three critical areas for the internal identity of both the individual religious and the corporate body, however defined, to which she/he belongs. It is an amazing book.
Schneiders, of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters, has the biblical, theological and historical ...