The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy (eBook)

The History and Consequences of Mandatory Celibacy Within Catholicism

Debra Maria Flint, Paul Murphy Sanderson (Autoren)

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2025
282 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-3852-6083-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates the origins of the Catholic hierarchy's decision to mandate celibacy and the effects this has had on Catholic culture and wider society. In part 1, Debra Maria Flint examines the history and theology of mandatory celibacy and demonstrates that this practice has no roots in Judaism or the teachings of Jesus. Flint then discusses the effects of enforced celibacy and illustrates how it cemented the creation of a patriarchal church. She argues that the consequences of this were a misogynistic culture, the psychological maladjustment of some priests, abuses of human rights, illicit sexual practices, and sexual abuse.
In part 2, Paul Murphy Sanderson, a former Cistercian monk and priest, describes Catholic culture from within and gives a brave and harrowing account of the sexual abuse he experienced during his time as a member of the Catholic clergy.
Debra Maria Flint is a Catholic feminist writer who has fought for an end to misogynistic and abusive practices. She has now teamed up with Paul Murphy Sanderson, a former Catholic priest, to create a book that challenges the Catholic Church to rid itself of manmade customs that distort the original message of Christianity.

Autor

Debra Maria Flint is a Catholic feminist writer and author of Look Back to the Future: Consecrated Women in Britain 597 AD to Date (2021) and No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women Within Catholicism (2024). Flint, an Anglo-Greek bilingual, studied theology and later obtained a diploma in nursing studies, a BSc in social care, and postgraduate qualifications in management and research. She worked for many years in safeguarding.



Paul Murphy Sanderson is a former Cistercian monk and priest who survived clerical sexual abuse and, after courageously confronting injustice, chose to leave the Roman Catholic Church. He holds a bachelor of divinity degree from St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. No longer bound by institutions, Sanderson now lives with renewed freedom, seeking God in creation, embodying Jesus’s message of love, and affirming the profound interconnectedness that offers hope, healing, and meaning to all life on earth.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2025
• Nachwort: Jonathan Blake
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Catholic • Christianity • Christian theology • Clergy • Debra Maria Flint • ethics • Paul Murphy Sanderson • Religious and spiritual figures • Religious Ethics • Roman Catholic Church • Roman Catholicism • The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3852-6083-6 / 9798385260836