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	Catholic Scandals: A Crisis for Celibacy? by Leon J. Podles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clerical celibacy was a source of contention even in the patristic period; clerics were often punished for violating the canons.
		Celibacy proclaims that it is possible to live without sexual pleasure, a rebuke to those who make sexual pleasure the center of their lives and justify horrendous actions (such as abortion) by the impossibility of refraining from sex.
		The difficulties with celibacy are simply an egregious manifestation of a general lack of discipline in the Church, a discipline that must be mostly self-discipline, and a symptom of a laxity and worldliness that were encouraged by some of the changes after the Second Vatican Council.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/15.3docs/15-3pg25.html (4500 words)

	Celibacy Definition (Britannica.com)
		Celibacy, the state of being unmarried, usually in association with the role of a religious official or devotee.
		Wherever celibacy has appeared, it has generally accompanied the view that the religious life is essentially different or even alienated from the normal structures of society and the normal drives of human nature.
		Celibacy probably is 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.
	k4a4.com /celibacy-definition.htm (1724 words)

	Clerical Medical -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An oath of clerical celibacy is the promise of a religious or clerical official to remain unmarried, or not to remarry.
		This is in opposition to the doctrine of clerical celibacy currently followed in the Roman Catholic Church, where priests are not allowed to marry, on the principle that this leaves them free to devote their lives fully to the service of the Church and God.
		Clerical fascism is an ideological construct that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with theology or religious tradition.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/32/clerical-medical.html (1427 words)

	EDITORIAL: Costs of clerical celibacy are rising
		Celibacy can thus be natural, purposeful and a rich form of spiritual practice.
		As a mandatory obligation for the clergy of the Latin church, however, celibacy is eroding Catholicism.
		John Paul II said in 1993 that celibacy “does not belong to the essential structure of the priesthood.” That fact is embedded in canon law: Of the 22 Catholic churches sui iuris in union with the bishop of Rome, only the Latin church requires celibacy of all its priests.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/090399/090399p.htm (861 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).
		This vow of chastity is different from clerical celibacy because the promise is made directly to God, while the promise of clerical celibacy is made to the church alone.
		Celibacy for religious and monastics (brothers/monks and sisters/nuns) and bishops is upheld by both the Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian traditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clerical_celibacy (2155 words)

	FT December 2002: Celibacy in Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	AskThePriest.org: Clerical Nookie....
		Celibacy is complete abstinence from sexual activity - it is a vow taken on by monastics of all traditions, by priests in the Roman Catholic tradition, and since Eastern Orthodox bishops are chosen from the monastics, the Bishops in that tradition.
		Clerical Celibacy, which was already accepted by monastic priests, was seen as a solution, and as early as 302, the Western church began to call for celibacy, but it was not universally accepted throughout the church until at least 1102 AD.
		It is important to note that priestly celibacy has never been a matter of doctrine, or what is believed about the priesthood, but a matter of discipline, or how it is administered, although there does appear to be some movement in the Vatican away from this position.
	www.askthepriest.org /askthepriest/2005/09/clerical_nookie.html (844 words)

	Celibacy in the tradition of the Catholic Church - Jul. 13, 2003
		It turns out that to speak of celibacy is not an adequate notion, since the early Church did not have an obligation for the clergy to be unmarried, as meant by the Latin word (caelebs).
		From this fact the conclusion is sometimes drawn that mandatory celibacy was an invention of the Papal Church in the Middle Ages.
		The early Church knew of an obligation for all higher clerics, that is, bishops, deacons and priests, to abstain from sexual intercourse.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2003/jul/13/letter_1-1.htm (1337 words)

	Celibacy
		Although the teaching of "celibacy" did not become "official" until the 12 century, the discipline of "celibacy" was most definitely the rule that was followed.
		It is decided that marriage be altogether prohibited to bishops, priests, and deacons, or to all clerics placed in the ministry, and that they keep away from their wives and not beget children; whoever does this, shall be deprived of the honor of the clerical office.
		Celibacy is a charism that is not given to all, but to a few.
	www.canapologetics.net /html/celibacy.html (2554 words)

	EIPS - Clerical Celibacy
		In the case of Celibacy, however, it is altogether otherwise.
		The celibacy of the clergy is a matter of fact, which, with its effects, has come within the province of the civil, who has dealt with it as freely as the ecclesiastical, historian; and both have united in testifying that, while Popery was rampant, it was the curse of the world.
		Celibacy was enjoined upon the clergy under the pretext that it would eminently contribute to holiness; but while this was the avowed, it was very far from being the true, cause.
	www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?ArtKey=celibacy (2018 words)

	Rights 7: Celibacy & Pedophilia
		Celibacy is "purity." As such it is the will of God for his chosen elite, as every Catholic was taught.
		But celibacy as idealized, institutionalized and mandated by the church provides an ideal environment for those men whose sexuality (and personality) development has been arrested at an immature level leading to their inability to establish intimate relations with another adult.
		Because celibacy is regarded as the highest and purest state of life it is easy to understand why the church must deny any connection between the "celibate" pedophile and the institution.
	astro.ocis.temple.edu /~arcc/rights7.htm (1518 words)

	Wikinfo \| Clerical celibacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A vow of clerical celibacy is the promise of a Christian priest or bishop to remain unmarried, or, in some churches, of a deacon or priest not to remarry if his wife dies.
		The given reasons for clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church are both theological and practical.
		Among the early Church statements on the topic of sexual continence and celibacy are "Decreta" and "Cum in unum" of Pope Siricius ca.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Clerical_celibacy (965 words)

	Clerical Celibacy: The Heritage Catholic New Times - Find Articles
		Clerical Celibacy: The Heritage by William E. Phipps, New York, Continuum, 2004, 272 pp.
		He traces celibacy through the different eras beginning with the Jewish and pagan cultures and shows how the sexual pessimism and Gnostic asceticism invaded Christianity, where it was canonized by church fathers from Clement, Origen and Augustine to Jerome.
		This is a brilliant compendium of the church's failed attempt to impose celibacy on a generally unwilling and fallible priesthood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_20_29/ai_n15977493 (205 words)

	CatholicMind.com - Selected Writings of Father Anthony Zimmerman
		What he says in the Pearson is that clerical celibacy dates back to the time of the apostles, and that it remains as the norm for the Church ever since.
		Secondly, their decision for celibacy indicates that the assembled bishops believe that clerical chastity is possible for themselves as well as for their fellow-clergy; they speak not from detached theory but from personal experience; they know the struggle perfectly well, and they assume the challenge willingly.
		Thirdly, they do not see the obligation of clerical celibacy as an innovation of their century; they see it as a tradition which goes all the way back to the apostles: "What the apostles taught, we will also do." So far the Council of Carthage of 390.
	www.catholicmind.com /articles/celibacy.htm (6222 words)

	Catholic Bishops Slam HBO `Celibacy' Documentary -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A new documentary to be broadcast on HBO on June 28 raises provocative questions about the role of clerical celibacy in the Catholic sexual abuse crisis.
		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)

	celibacy
		Nevertheless, in the early Church, clerical celibacy was not mandated.
		Nevertheless, the move to clerical celibacy began to grow in areas of the Church.
		Later, Protestant leaders ridiculed and attacked the discipline of clerical celibacy, partly because of some of the notorious abuses during the Renaissance.
	www.catholicherald.com /saunders/04ws/ws040527.htm (995 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.
		They distinquish between "celibacy" (being partnerless) and "abstinence" (the real thing), and believe one can masturbate and still be called "celibate." They refer to this as "unchaste celibacy." But this is not the long held understanding of the word.
		Celibacy implies chastity and complete sexual abstinence (as above) and is probably the strongest English word for the sexless state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celibacy (1121 words)

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		As marriage is the symbol of the union of Christ and the church, clerical celibacy is the symbol of the separation of church and world.
		Celibacy allegedly raises the cleric above the married laity whose proper domain is the "world." To emphasize the "otherworldliness" of the celibate cleric, he has traditionally been forbidden from engaging in worldly pursuits, as today he is prohibited from holding political office.
		In the patristic era, clerical celibacy, strictly speaking meant the inability to enter marriage once a higher Order had been received.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/clerical-celibacy.html (303 words)

	Time to Abolish Clerical Celibacy
		The author is correct in that clerical celibacy is not biblically mandated.
		Celibacy (like much monastic thought) is a way of trying to imitate the life of Jesus to better serve the flock.
		It is because of celibacy in the Catholic church that many homosexuals and pedophiles are drawn to it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/600888/posts (590 words)

	The Irrational Antipathy of Luther, Calvin, & Other Protestants to Clerical Celibacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Celibacy was not dogma but it was a very entrenched and successful practice in the Church.
		He is, therefore, eisegeting, because his concern is precisely the opposite of St. Paul’s: to disparage celibacy or virginity in practice as impossible and too easily overcome by the lusts of the flesh.
		Our argument is that the observance of celibacy is not only possible for the few called to be monks and enjoying the safeguards of the monastic life, but that it is not beyond the strength of a great body of men numbered by tens of thousands,.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ266.HTM (4199 words)

	Celibacy and the Catholic Priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He states that celibacy is not proposed as a natural phenomenon and that it is a highly specialized gift that presume an awareness of existence beyond the ordinary as well as charism.
		Celibacy is a way of life, allowing a religious to focus on one's calling without the economic, political, and social encumbrances of a conjugal partnership.
		She draws a line of distinction between celibacy that accompanies the vows of a religious order and chastity which she feels should be preserved until marriage.
	www.arthurstreet.com /celibacy1993.html (10030 words)

	Why Not Married Priests? The Case for Clerical Celibacy
		The early Church Fathers —; Tertullian, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, and Hilary — wrote in favor of clerical celibacy, and at the end of the Dark Ages, great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory VII insisted that henceforth the priesthood would be celibate.
		The exaltation of celibacy does not in any way denigrate marriage....Those who live celibately are, in effect, "skipping" the sacrament in anticipation of the ultimate reality, the "Marriage of the Lamb." They are an "eschatological sign" for the rest of us.
		Obviously, not all married clergymen are like this, but clerical marriages have their special difficulties, and, unlike 130 years ago, when Butler wrote his novel, there is now the possibility of divorce.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0054.html (3206 words)

	Clerical Celibacy
		So hopeless seemed the task of enforcing clerical celibacy, or making out of the requirement anything else than a fruitful occasion of hypocrisy and libertinism, that some Roman Catholic rulers began to advocate in earnest the privilege of marriage for the clergy.
		It was the opinion of the doctors that family ties on the part of the clergy would antagonize the bonds of the hierarchy and weaken allegiance to central authority.
		It is, therefore, with considerable show of reason, that it has been contended that the celibacy of the priesthood in the Romish Church is not merely a prescription of discipline, but a matter of dogma.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /sheldon/clerical_celibacy.html (1337 words)

	EIPS - Mandatory Clerical Celibacy
		Clerical concubinage has thus been tolerated in preference to this loss of undisputed power centered in Rome.
		"Clerical concubinage was the rule rather than the exception, and friars openly roamed the streets of cities with women on their arms.
		Numerous Roman Catholic historians have acknowledged that the law of celibacy for priests and the vows of chastity for monks are historical failures.
	www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?ArtKey=clericalcelibacy (778 words)

	Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Supporters of clerical celibacy say that a single man will be able to devote himself more fully to his ministry because he will not have the distractions inseparable from married life.
		This is the basis for the discipline of clerical celibacy required in Latin Rite Catholicism.
		Today, the truth that consecrated celibacy is a higher state of life than marriage is often rejected, and when not rejected, is usually ignored, as though it were an embarrassing secret about which we should keep silent.
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/2003/aug2003p14_1408.html (1192 words)

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