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Foreword by Reverend Richard P. McBrien
PART I.BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
1. WHY STUDY CELIBACY?
Sex/Celibacy: Breaking the taboo * The broader context * The study: what it is and what it is not * Reasons for this study
2. WHAT IS IT?
Factors of the Crisis * The meanings of celibacy * Abstinence * Law and ideal * Christ the ideal * Love * Definition of Celibacy
3. HOW DO THOSE WHO PROFESS CELIBACY PRACTICE IT?
Levels of Observation * Numerical Summary * Estimates of Sexual Behavior * Narratives
PART II. PRACTICE VERSUSPROFESSION
4. THE MASTURBATIONS
Nature * Pathology * Maturity and immaturity * Nocturnal emissions * Fasting * Spontaneous emissions * Vice and virtue * Guilt
5. PRIESTS AND WOMEN
The heterosexual presumption * Splitting and secrecy * Heterosexual relationships * Heterosexual behaviors * Patterns of association
6. WHEN PRIESTS BECOME FATHERS
Births * Abortion
7. THE HOMOSEXUALITIES
Homosexualities and the clergy * Denial of the homosocial structure * The male matrix * The system of secrecy * Developmental questions and variations * Alcoholism * Acquired immune deficiency syndrome * Homosexuality and mental health
8. SEXUAL COMPROMISES
What is normal? * The place of women * Fear of women * What is pornography? * Exhibitionistic behavior * Transvestism * Priests and animals * Suffering and sexual violence
PARTIII. THE HEART OF THE CRISIS
9. PRIESTS AND MINORS
What is pedophilia? * Frequency of Occurrence * Social ramifications of abuse * Causes * Avenues of access * Behaviors * Victims-the aftermath * Treatment * Awareness of the problem * The future
10. WHO ABUSES?
Psychological profile * Categories of vulnerability * Four case studies
11. CAN CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE BE PREVENTED?
Screening * Denial * Ecclesiogenic factors * Systemic elements * Mandatory celibacy * Ethical code * Impediments to ethical definitions * Elements of a code of sexual ethics
PART IV. PROCESS AND ATTAINMENT
12. LIVING WITH CELIBACY
What is the process of celibacy? * Developmental relationships * Internalization * Temporal stages
13. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CELIBACY
Essential elements of celibate achievement * Who will follow? * The crisis of abuse
EPILOGUE: DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS The seven pillars of the crisis
ReferencesIndex
Acknowledgments
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