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	The new celibacy
		In certain religions and on some spiritual paths, a person may choose to be celibate for life in order to keep his or her attention on the most elevated levels of knowledge and experience in devotion to God.
		Life celibates are usually individuals who are physically, mentally, and socially self-sufficient and who have no real need of other people in order to be happy, even though they may be devoted to helping others.
		Since being celibate (whether for a day, a week, a year, or a lifetime) means refraining from sexual activity and since many books on sex have given masturbation the blue ribbon for most terrific orgasms, it is clear that if you want to indulge in celibacy, you don't masturbate.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/brown.htm (6041 words)

	A Season of Celibacy, Part 2
		When a person is celibate â” either for a season or a lifetime â” he has the opportunity to offer all the energy and love he would otherwise pour into a romantic relationship to a hurting world.
		A celibate season can also be life giving when our willingness to save sexual intimacy for marriage witnesses to the Kingdom of God in our lives.
		Committing to be chaste for a celibate season (or to be monogamous within marriage) is a radical statement of belief.
	www.boundless.org /features/a0000969.html (1599 words)

	A View of the Celibate Gift (Purposeful Singleness)
		The term "celibate" is often used today to refer to someone who is abstaining from sex for a period of time or has recommitted to abstinence, and does not capture the essence of virginity.
		But the person with the celibate gift does not condemn Christian marriage, is not afraid of physical intimacy, is not antisocial, is not irresponsible, is not immature, is not naïve, and is not a "loner." These are all stereotypes.
		The celibate takes comfort in knowing that social norms on this earth are fading and that her eternal mission cannot be diluted by labels.
	www.singleness.org /celibate.shtml (2942 words)

	Vision 2003: Six myths (and some truth) about the gift of celibate chastity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A woman living a life of celibate chastity but experiencing a period of loneliness may come to believe that she would never be lonely if she were married.
		When discussing celibate chastity, or Christian marriage for that matter, we need to diffuse the myths about what is normal and what is not.
		Those who embrace a life of celibate chastity, then, must commit themselves to live with passion-to be deeply spiritual and sexual at the same time.
	www.ozvocations.catholic.org.au /thinking/visionmag/six_myths.html (1830 words)

	Sociology of Religion: Religious differences between married and celibate clergy: does celibacy make a difference? - ...
		The hypotheses of this paper are: Celibate clergy are not more religious than the married clergy and the former do not spend more time with their parishioners than the latter.
		Brown (1988) adds that the early celibates were more likely to be men and women who were originally married, had raised their children, and, if they then became widowed, chose celibacy.
		The primary motive seems to be "singleness of heart" so that the monk in leaving the city, as a symbol of this world's civilization, and entering the desert, a symbol of the antithesis of the city, could recapture the lost "glory of Adam" in paradise and be like the angels in heaven.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_n1_v59/ai_20576005 (1516 words)

	- Priests & People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The notion that celibate chastity plays a major role in our current vocation crisis or is a contributing factor to incidents of sexual misconduct by clerics and men and women religious has given rise to some skewed thinking.
		A person choosing a life of celibate chastity puts his or her emphasis on developing and pursuing ways of loving, rather than on genital behaviour or his or her lack of it.
		Herein lies the challenge of celibate chastity: while a people may be judged to be naïve and foolish, in choosing to live out their sexuality in this manner, they also commit themselves to live with passion, to be deeply spiritual and sexual at the same time.
	www.thetablet.co.uk /cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00060 (4018 words)

	BASIC: Let's go for celibate women priests first! - Jun 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A celibate woman is a better icon of Christ than a married man. Unless this is recognized, ordaining married men would delay the ordination of women indefinitely, and would reinforce the perpetuation of machismo in both church and society.
		Celibate women priests would require revising one canon and correcting a few recent doctrinal rationalizations, which the next pope can do by the stroke of a pen.
		Celibate women priests will lead to married priests in short order, since celibacy is a purely disciplinary matter without "doctrinal" barriers to be overcomed.
	www.iol.ie /~duacon/l960601.htm (209 words)

	The Celibate FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Celibate merchandise(?!) (What we're on the look out for at the moment is some sort of ear ring or badge that will indicate our celibate status and so save us from being targetted by lecherous people at parties etc.)
		She was fiercely critical of those who thought that her life must be emotionally impoverished by not having sexual relationships anymore, emphasizing the depth of her friendships, especially her bond with the aunt with whom she lived.
		People who are celibate don't normally feel the need to tell the world about it: this resulting low profile makes it more difficult for others to acknowledge celibacy as part of their identity.
	www.sexuality.org /l/incoming/celibate.html (3605 words)

	Celibate Student
		Celibate Student is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The idea that a student of Brahman should be a strict celibate became so ingrained in the mind of people that over a period of time the word Brahmacharya became synonymous more with the idea of celibacy than with that of the study of Brahman.
		A celibate religious student who lives with his teacher and devotes himself to the practice of spiritual discipline.
	www.experiencefestival.com /celibate_student (799 words)

	Celibate in the City: By way of introduction....
		Celibate dating is a challenge all its own and has lead to many strange and uncomfortable situations.
		dear Celibate, Plenty od Mo women,like myself, have no one to share their burdens with, no one to pray with and are sexually frustrated (alot of us!) You see us every Sunday, sitting with our families in church, upstanding Elder or High Priest by our side, smile on our face, the perfect family.
		It would be really nice if the church would appreciate the singles for their own individual worth as opposed to seeing singles as random pieces that must find mates in order to have value.
	celibateinthecity.blogspot.com /2004/03/by-way-of-introduction.html (3742 words)

	HEALTHY CELIBATE PRIESTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Several prominent authors have claimed that the rash of sexual misconduct cases that have so damaged the image of the Catholic priest are directly related to the inability of those priests who cause such scandals to consolidate a mature and healthy practice of the celibate life.
		The unique contribution of the study is that it helps us understand a few of the factors that might promote healthy celibacy in the priesthood since a control group of non-offenders was also included.
		What is significant, however, is the fact that the large population of non-offending Catholic priests is not untouched by sexual abuse, yet, most of them, who are, do not necessarily become themselves sexual offenders.
	www.votf.org /papers/HealthyPriests.html (2663 words)

	celibate - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Historically, celibate means only "unmarried"; its use to mean "abstaining from sexual intercourse" is a 20th-century development.
		But the new sense of the word seems to have displaced the old, and the use of celibate to mean "unmarried" is now almost sure to invite misinterpretation in other than narrowly ecclesiastical contexts.
		He remained celibate [unmarried], although he engaged in sexual intercourse.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/c/c0188600.html (107 words)

	Study Shows Involuntarily Celibate More Depressed - The Hilltop - Health and Fitness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Virginal celibates were defined as people who had never had a sexual experience.
		Partnered celibates were either married or in long-term relationships but no longer had sex with their partners.
		He added that some involuntary celibates are celibate because they want sex but simply do not press the issue as much as others.
	www.thehilltoponline.com /news/2003/04/04/HealthAndFitness/Study.Shows.Involuntarily.Celibate.More.Depressed-408497.shtml (608 words)

	Celibate FAQ, v1.7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If you are involuntarily celibate, there is a useful web page for you at http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ad097/ic-home.html (but keep reading anyway!).
		If you have a friend who is a celibate and not in a relationship, it is a good idea to find out which kind they are.
		Stevie Smith, poet and novelist, was celibate all her life, after sampling and rejecting romance and sex in her youth.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/alt-sex/celibacy (4799 words)

	Tops!
		The Sexual Celibate is based upon the growing conviction that friendship is not detrimental but central to celibate living, that celibate persons are also sexual persons, and that celibate life is a profound and rewarding way of living.
		Among other strengths are the integration of psychological and theological data, a positive attitude towards both celibacy and sexuality, and the view that celibate men and women and married men and women are to be partners and equals rather than foes or strangers with the body of Christ.
		To live celibate love incarnationally day by day in a secular world amid an alien value system is not easy and verges on the heroic.
	www.jknirp.com /goergen.htm (273 words)

	When Did the Catholic Church Decide Priests Should Be Celibate?
		The belief that religious figures should be celibate began long before the birth of Christianity.
		Ancient Druid priests were thought to have been celibate and Aztec temple priests were expected to remain sexually abstinent.
		Jesus lived a chaste life and never married and at one point in the Bible is referred to as a eunuch (Matthew 19:12).
	historynewsnetwork.org /articles/article.html?id=696 (906 words)

	Catholic World News : Seminarians must be capable of celibate life, Pope says
		Vatican, Feb. 01 (CWNews.com) - Candidates for the priesthood must be psychologically capable of living a celibate life, Pope John Paul II (bio - news) has reminded seminary leaders.
		The pressures upon celibate priests are considerable in today's society, the Pope observes.
		"At the moment that young men are admitted to the seminary, their suitableness for living a celibate life must be carefully verified," he says, "so that, prior to ordination, they achieve a moral certainty concerning their emotive and sexual maturity." The Pope's message to the Congregation for Catholic Education was addressed to Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=34992 (789 words)

	Celibate Clergy
		The Orthodox Church recognizes married priests and monastic clergy, but there is no place for something called "celibate clergy." In the Orthodox Church, one is either a married priest or a monastic.
		If a person who desires to be a priest is not married, he has to become a monk and live in a monastery.
		The problem of having "celibate clergy" needs to be addressed at some time along the way, for reasons that should be obvious, aside from the matter that it is not in the Tradition of the Church.
	www.new-ostrog.org /celibate.html (744 words)

	Gay men can be priests if celibate: paper - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Church teaches that homosexuality is not a sin but that homosexual acts are, and it expects all priests, whether homosexual or heterosexual, to remain celibate.
		The Corriere report by the paper's respected religious affairs correspondent Luigi Accattoli, which he said was based on "verbal indiscretions," said the testing period for celibacy would be the last three years of seminary study.
		Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services, caused a storm when he said that even homosexuals who had managed to remain celibate for 10 years or more should not be admitted into seminaries.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/10/07/gay_men_can_be_catholic_priests_if_celibate_paper (624 words)

	Celibate FAQ, v1.6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So it is that people decide that their celibate friend must be incapable of love or affection, or does not have fun in other ways.
		This is bizarre from the celibate perspective, because many of us are using it to enrich our emotional lives by channelling that energy into other experiences.
		There is a very poetic (in both good and bad senses) essay on the advantages of celibate life in the Hungry Mind Review, at http://www.bookwire.com/HMR/Review/norris2.html Issue 12 of Bi Community News has a report from a "Bisexuality and Celibacy" workshop.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a3668.html (4409 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celibacy of the Clergy
		But for the moment, we may note that St. Dunstan, who more than any other character in early English history is identified with the cause of a celibate clergy, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 960 to 988, a period during which the papacy was subjected to oppression and disorder of the worst kind.
		And a similar lesson might be drawn from the Gallicanism of the French clergy in the seventeenth century, which seemingly was not inconsistent with at least ordinary fidelity to their vows of continence.
		Supposing, however, that he protested at the time that a celibate life was above his strength, the decrees of Ancyra allow him to marry subsequently, as having tacictly received the permission of the ordaining bishop.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03481a.htm (8473 words)

	Jet: Can a couple remain celibate before marriage? - Lifestyles
		Being celibate, as defined by experts, means no sexual intercourse --genital or anal-and no stimulation of a sex organ orally or with hands belonging to another.
		"Remaining celibate was the best decision for me to have a level of self-confidence to reach career goals on and off the court," says the reigning NBA Iron Man who played in 1,192 consecutive games, spanning 15 seasons.
		Janelle says that having a "strong" man will help a woman to remain celibate before he asks for her hand in marriage.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_11_103/ai_115036267 (1282 words)

	The Celibate Rifles
		The Celibate Rifles have clearly been one of the most important bands in Australia over the last several years from an artistic viewpoint, and they've also had more impact than almost anybody else.
		Although the Celibate Rifles can't claim total responsibility for the idea of a resurgence of guitars and energy in a worldwide rock and roll scene that was increasingly being dominated by synthesized music and "art", they certainly have had as much impact as any other band.
		The Celibate Rifles played their one and only ever gig in San Diego in September of 1987 at UCSD.
	www.nkvdrecords.com /celibate.htm (6538 words)

	Involuntary Celibacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This site is here in order to spread awareness and knowledge of a little known condition called involuntary celibacy, or "incel" as it is often referred to.
		Whilst 'incel' is the official term for the condition of having a lack of sexual or romantic interaction in one's life, often for extended periods, people often take a long time to firstly truly realise that a lack of romantic interaction is what is truly being missed, and then term it as best they can.
		This site is built on submissions from those who feel they may have something to offer other incels as stories of warning, hope, success and to offer hints and tips on how to cope, live with, and overcome the situation of being a terminally celibate person.
	incelsite.com (533 words)

	The Curt Jester: Celibate History
		Clergy could be married up until the 12th century when the Roman Catholic Church adopted the practice of a celibate clergy, said the Rev. Phil Gibbs, director of vocation awareness in the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
		There of course has always been those who lived celibate lives from the beginning of the Church and this became more of the norm over time.
		It was more of a matter of choice up to the time of Constantine and the Council of Nicaea, but increasingly after that it became a required discipline.
	www.splendoroftruth.com /curtjester/archives/005532.php (636 words)

	The Celibate FAQ
		In some cases, people have responded to hearing that someone is a celibate by recommending a doctor or a psychiatrist.
		As we have seen, some people are celibate because they want a particular kind of relationship, while others are pleased to be entirely solitary.
		When someone tells you that they are celibate, they are not offering to tell you absolutely everything personal about themselves.
	www.glandscape.com /celibate.html (4840 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A person can be classified as being Medically Celibate if there is any interruption, inconvenience or drastic change in their sex life due to disease or disability.
		Being Medically Celibate, a "Medcel," which is not by choice, causes shame, severe depression, and a sense of aloneness and isolation.
		The ill person is not celibate alone, their partner now is forced to be a celibate, too.
	www.medicalcelibatesnetwork.com (2600 words)

	He's celibate until marriage, and dates won't tolerate it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I can even understand being celibate until you get married, assuming you are planning to get married in your early 20s.
		If I had a son that was 33, and had been celibate for 10 years, during his sexual prime, I'd think there was something wrong with him.
		I appreciate his commitment to remaining celibate until marriage, however if I had spent six months with this gentleman and there was no ring I'd hit the road.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/929495/posts (3856 words)

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