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	Celibacy - LoveToKnow 1911
		Physicians and physiologists have frequently discussed celibacy from their professional point of view; but it will be sufficient to note here the results of statistical inquiries.
		For the next three or four centuries there is little to note but the continual evidence of open or secret resistance to these decrees, and the parallel frequency and stringency of ecclesiastical legislation, which by its very monotony bears witness to its own want of success.
		In France the revolutionary constitution of 1791 abolished all restrictions on marriage, and during the Terror celibacy of ten exposed a priest to suspicion as an enemy to the Republic; but the better part of the clergy steadily resisted this innovation, and it is estimated that only about 2% were married.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Celibacy (2693 words)

	The new celibacy
		Celibacy is a way of breaking boundaries, old patterns of behavior that exist between the mind and body, between the self and others.
		In the Eastern traditions, celibacy represents a discipline to gain enlightenment, whereby all the physical, mental, and emotional energy of the body, mind, and senses is directed toward progressively higher levels of evolution.
		Whether celibacy is practiced under the guidance of a particular spiritual community or in the bedroom of a married couple, it is beginning to emerge in our society as a useful and positive vehicle to further personal growth for a number of people today.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/brown.htm (6041 words)

	Celibacy - Jun. 17, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Celibacy in a church has accompanied an emphasis that regards the religious life as essentially different from the normal structures of society and the normal drives of human nature.
		Essentially, celibacy requires a priest to be a "spiritual hermaphrodite" who does not need the other sex to be complete because he is an image of the sacred that is beyond external or human needs.
		Some authors say that celibacy is probably derived from taboos that regarded sexual power as a rival to religious power, and the sexuality of the opposite sex as a polluting factor, especially in sacred or crisis situations.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2003/jun/17/opi_editorial-1.htm (749 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celibacy of the Clergy
		Celibacy is the renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the Sacrament of Orders in any of the higher grades.
		Nevertheless, when the Old Catholics abolished compulsory celibacy for the priesthood, Dr. Döllinger, as we are told by the intimate friend of his, an Anglican, was "sorely grieved" by the step, and this seems to have been one of the principal things which kept him from any formal participation in the Old Catholic communion.
		Undoubtedly during this period the traditions of sacerdotal celibacy in Western Christendom suffered severely but even though a large number of the clergy, not only priests but bishops, openly took wives and begot children to whom they transmitted their benefices, the principle of celibacy was never completely surrendered in the official enactments of the Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03481a.htm (8457 words)

	Celibacy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Celibacy is physically unnatural and can result in physical problems, especially in men unless they masturbate so the body is used as it was intended.
		The whole celibacy nonsense was also the result of middle age Gnostic influences that false taught that the body was dirty and not spiritual and to be more spiritual you had to avoid natural sexuality.
		That the monks...embraced celibacy 'for better or worse' does not obviate the fact that it is, in fact, unnatural, and move often than not betrays underlying problems and insecurities.
	www.libchrist.com.cob-web.org:8888 /bible/celibacy.html (1172 words)

	FT December 2002: Celibacy in Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Seen in its true context of asceticism, celibacy ceases to be a legal requirement for a small section of the Christian faithful and is revealed instead as an aspect of the universal vocation of all believers.
		Celibacy in the West is not seen as related primarily to monasticism, but rather to priesthood in general.
		Celibacy should not be undertaken because it is a legal requirement, but because the celibate is ready to encounter the Mystery that lies beneath his sexuality and yearns, through the liberating discipline of asceticism, to live on this mystical level.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0212/opinion/davies.html (2623 words)

	CELIBACY (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) by Ray Grosswirth, M.A., M.Div (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As I present this updated thesis on celibacy, we are in the midst of a pedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church.
		When one looks at the history of celibacy in the Catholic Church, it soon becomes apparent that this state of life became mandatory due to financial considerations, not because priests were supposed to emulate Christ by remaining single.
		(There was nothing theological in the celibacy directive.) As a side note to this history, it is interesting to note that the imposition of celibacy in 1139 was not the end of married priests.
	www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ga2/religious/celibacy.html (1891 words)

	Why Celibacy
		The practice of celibacy is an age-old, multi-religious practice to which men and women, desiring to serve a higher power by joining religious orders, commit their lives.
		Thirdly, celibacy is a witness to action of the spirit that draws humans to prayer and devotion.
		And finally, higher creativity is important to keep celibacy untarnished is learning to take the portion of creativity which is generated by sex and learn instead to turn it into creativity which can further one on their path to enlightenment.
	puffin.creighton.edu /jesuit/dialogue/events/2003_celibacy.html (1580 words)

	Celibacy: Has the Time Come to Consider Making Celibacy Optional In the Western Church? TCRNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		You have heard the most prevalent- that celibacy wasn't imposed in the Church until the 6th (or 9th, or 10th or 12th or 13th) century and that the motive for imposing celibacy was to prevent Church property from being inherited by the children of the clergy.
		The true original motivation for celibacy was the response to Jesus who invited his apostles to forsake marriage to become "eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom".
		Celibacy is not the source of the purported ‘shortage’ of priests.
	www.tcrnews2.com /celibacy.html (8789 words)

	Celibacy of priests is not the same as sexual purity
		In the celibacy of its priests roots the compulsion to draw the future generations of the clergy, instead of from its own ranks, again and again from the broad masses of the people...
		The real shame and tyranny of priestly celibacy, as Pere Hyacinthe (converted priest) rightly remarks, is the necessity to which its victims are forced of hiding the real facts of it from the public.
		The "particular significance of celibacy" in their regimented, Nazi-like organization, which Hitler discovered as "not recognized by most people," lies in the fact that the second and third generation of priests' children would threaten its totalitarian structure, as well as its enormous wealth and secrets.
	www.chick.com /bc/1984/celibacy.asp (762 words)

	Celibacy Is a Gift (This Rock: February 2001)
		Celibacy and marriage are not two competing vocations but are dependent upon and elevate one another.
		Although celibacy is objectively superior to marriage, it does not diminish the goods of marriage.
		In a proper sense, priests are men who freely choose celibacy "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." After all, it is the vow or promise of celibacy that comes first, not ordination.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/2001/0102fea5.asp (1276 words)

	Celibacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Celibacy has long been a synonym for abstinence or chastity, with "celibacy" a weightier word implying a commitment or even a vow.
		Clerical celibacy is a requirement for priests, a church law which is maintained by the Roman Catholic Church and also by the monastic orders of Hindu and Buddhist traditions in the East.
		Recently, the issue of celibacy for Roman Catholic priests has again become a source of heated debate, partly in response to the decline in vocations, but also in the wake of discoveries of longstanding ephebophilic behaviour of a number of Catholic priests in the USA and elsewhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celibacy (1190 words)

	'Celibacy': A mishmash of social science, history, theology \| The-Tidings.com
		Though the history of the vow of celibacy is continually used as the point of departure to build the premise of the film, it presents only a one-sided look and finds only nefarious reasons for the adoption of this vow for the clergy and religious.
		"Celibacy" uses a stacked-deck approach to investigate the socio-religious roots of abstinence among various faith traditions, with a focused emphasis on Roman Catholicism and celibacy's alleged link to the church's sexual abuse scandal.
		While the film accurately dates mandatory celibacy in the Roman rite to 1139, a supposedly unbiased expert misleadingly asserts that the final decision was one based solely on questions concerning the inheritance of church property.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/0625/celibacyrose.htm (1421 words)

	Catholic Bishops Slam HBO `Celibacy' Documentary -- Beliefnet.com
		In an interview from his home in England, the filmmaker, Antony Thomas, said his interest in celibacy was spurred by a desire to go beyond the daily media coverage of the church's abuse scandal.
		Celibacy serves the Church as an institution more than it serves Catholic priests or laypeople.
		The countercultural witness of celibacy in a sex-saturated society may be more valuable to the Holy Spirit than it was 30 years ago.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/148/story_14827_1.html (438 words)

	Deal Hudson : How to Refute Arguments Against Priestly Celibacy
		The discipline of celibacy among priests is one of the distinctive marks of the Roman Catholic tradition.
		This is not to say that all men should be celibate, however; Paul explains that celibacy is a calling for some and not for others by saying, "Each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another" (7:7).
		Far from being a law forced upon the medieval priesthood, it was the acceptance of celibacy by priests centuries earlier that eventually led to its universal promulgation in the twelfth century.
	www.catholicity.com /commentary/hudson/celibacy.html (1573 words)

	The Politics of Celebacy
		Celibacy was a victory for those who wanted a strong state-church pope.
		Celibacy is not and never was a vow made to God or Jesus.
		Celibacy is a promise to the Church, so it can be changed, from the pope, instantly.
	www.bradleyreport.net /commentary/Celebacy.htm (1430 words)

	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church
		While certain members of the clergy support the abolition of celibacy, others defend the practice as a sacred expression of their love for God.
		Reconsidering celibacy and maleness as preconditions for entering the Catholic priesthood is the right thing to do theologically and for the life of the church.
		By endowing priests with an aura of discipline and trust, the Catholic Church's policy on celibacy fosters pedophilia and facilitates coverups.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse/extras/celibacy.htm (323 words)

	A Brief Word on Celibacy
		There is fear in our contemporary culture, that an acceptance of the notion of celibacy equates to an acceptance of a tacit devaluation of marriage—that the celibate man looks spitefully on his married brother and the celibate woman scorns her married sister.
		All too often is celibacy described in terms of negation: the celibate is one who 'lacks' a spouse, who 'goes without' marriage, who 'suffers the absence' of a partner.
		Celibacy is a positive calling, and we are reminded of this when we appreciate its nature as divine gift.
	www.monachos.net /monasticism/celibacy.shtml (2349 words)

	Raymond Arroyo on Clerical Celibacy & Catholic Church on National Review Online
		If you believe the folks on TV, celibacy was something "imposed on the priesthood" during the Middle Ages to keep the children of clerics from inheriting Church property.
		Five years later, the Council of Carthage announced: "Previous councils have decreed that bishops, priests, and deacons must be continent and perfectly chaste, as becomes ministers of God...as the Apostles taught." By the Council of Toledo in 633, a bishop's permission was needed for a priest to marry.
		Finally in 1139, Pope Gregory VII declared celibacy mandatory for all priests; formalizing in law what was already the general practice for centuries.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-arroyo051602.asp (898 words)

	Priestly celibacy: Part 3
		She does it because celibacy "for the sake of the kingdom" is not only an eschatological sign; it also has a great social meaning, in the present life, for the service of the People of God.
		Celibacy is a sign of a freedom that exists for the sake of service.
		He decides upon a life of celibacy only after he has reached a firm conviction that Christ is giving him this "gift" for the good of the Church and the service of others.
	www.tldm.org /News4/Celibacy_JohnPaul2.htm (3676 words)

	Celibacy in the Priesthood
		In examining the issue of celibacy, we should first address its historical development in the life of the Church and then, next week, its spiritual basis and relevance for today’s clergy.
		Moreover, the Council asserted that celibacy was not impossible to live but at the same time recognized that celibates needed the grace of God to do so.
		Given the history of how celibacy came to be required for clergy in the Roman Catholic Church (except in several of the Eastern Rites), next week we will now examine the spirituality which undergirds the regulation, see "The Spirituality of Celibacy".
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0165.html (1047 words)

	celibacy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In ancient Rome the vestal virgins were celibates, and successful monasticism has everywhere been accompanied by celibacy as an ideal.
		In the West, celibacy was common among the parish clergy beginning the 3d cent.; as time passed, the Holy See became adamant in opposing the marriage of the secular clergy (see orders, holy).
		A standard defense of the Western discipline of celibacy for parish priests is that marriage would prevent the priest from giving his complete attention to his parish; critics complain that unmarried clergy are unfit to give counsel on marital and sexual problems.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ce/celibacy.html (405 words)

	Vatican won't change celibacy rules - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"The participants at the reunion were carefully briefed on the requests to receive dispensation from the obligation of celibacy that have been made in recent years and on the possibility of being readmitted to the exercise of the ministry of priests who now meet the conditions required by the church," the statement said.
		Earlier in the week the Vatican insisted that the policy on celibacy was not open for discussion, but that the meeting was called to examine the implications of the "disobedience" by Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.
		Louise Haggett, head of the advocacy group Citi ministries (for Celibacy is the Issue), contended that while decades ago, priests seeking dispensations "usually received it within a year," since the 1978-2005 papacy of John Paul II the waiting time has stretched to years.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2006-11-16-vatican_x.htm?csp=34 (763 words)

	Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those in religious orders (female or male) adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage and sexual relationships, including masturbation and "impure thoughts" (such as sexual visualisation and fantasies).
		Celibacy for religious and monastics (brothers/monks and sisters/nuns) and bishops is upheld by both the Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian traditions.
		Celibacy for priests is a discipline in the Roman Catholic Church, not a doctrine: in other words, a church regulation, but not an infallible divine teaching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clerical_celibacy (2206 words)

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