Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
PART I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT......Page 16
1 WHY STUDY CELIBACY?......Page 17
SEX/CELIBACY: BREAKING THE TABOO......Page 20
THE BROADER CONTEXT......Page 23
THE STUDY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT......Page 24
REASONS FORTHIS STUDY......Page 28
FACTORS OF THE CRISIS......Page 34
THE MEANINGS OF CELIBACY......Page 38
ABSTINENCE......Page 41
LAW AND IDEAL......Page 42
CHRIST THE IDEAL......Page 43
DEFINITION OF CELIBACY......Page 44
1. Freely Chosen......Page 45
3. Usually Vowed......Page 46
4. An Honest and Sustained Attempt......Page 48
5.To Live without Direct Sexual Gratification......Page 49
6. In Order to Serve Others Productively......Page 50
7. For a Spiritual Motive......Page 51
3 HOW DO THOSE WHO PROFESS CELIBACY PRACTICE IT?......Page 55
LEVELS OF OBSERVATION......Page 56
NUMERICAL SUMMARY......Page 61
ESTIMATES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR......Page 62
NARRATIVES......Page 65
PART II PRACTICE VERSUS PROFESSION......Page 66
4 THE MASTURBATIONS......Page 67
NATURE......Page 68
PATHOLOGY......Page 70
MATURITY AND IMMATURITY......Page 73
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS......Page 77
FASTING......Page 79
SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS......Page 81
VICE AND VIRTUE......Page 82
GUILT......Page 84
THE HETEROSEXUAL PRESUMPTION......Page 91
HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS......Page 96
Housekeepers......Page 97
Married Women......Page 99
Religious and Co-Workers......Page 102
To the Served......Page 104
The Outsider......Page 106
The Asexual Marriage......Page 107
Covert Marriage......Page 109
Transitional Behavior (The Prove-Myself Experience)......Page 110
Curiosity and Immaturity......Page 113
Anxiety, Depression, Mania, and Stress......Page 115
Idealization, Impulsiveness, and Narcissistic Behavior......Page 118
The Gantry Syndrome......Page 120
PATTERNS OF ASSOCIATION......Page 121
BIRTHS......Page 128
ABORTION......Page 131
7 THE HOMOSEXUALITIES......Page 143
HOMOSEXUALITIES AND THE CLERGY......Page 147
DENIAL OF THE HOMOSOCIAL STRUCTURE......Page 150
THE MALE MATRIX......Page 152
THE SYSTEM OF SECRECY......Page 154
DEVELOPMENTAL QUESTIONS AND VARIATIONS......Page 156
Prenatal and Early Influences......Page 157
The Negative Oedipal......Page 158
A Necessary Homosexual Phase of Development......Page 159
Pseudohomosexuality......Page 161
Defensive Homosexuality......Page 163
Regressive Homosexuality......Page 164
Situational Homosexuality......Page 166
Obligatory Homosexuality......Page 167
Sexual Addiction......Page 168
Committed Homosexuality......Page 169
Latent Homosexuality......Page 173
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME......Page 175
HOMOSEXUALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH......Page 176
8 SEXUAL COMPROMISES......Page 181
WHAT IS NORMAL?......Page 182
THE PLACE OF WOMEN......Page 183
FEAR OF WOMEN......Page 185
WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY?......Page 186
EXHIBITIONISTIC BEHAVIOR......Page 193
TRANSVESTISM......Page 195
SUFFERING AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE......Page 201
Murder......Page 203
Suicide......Page 204
PART III THE HEART OF THE CRISIS......Page 208
9 PRIESTS AND MINORS......Page 209
WHAT IS PEDOPHILIA?......Page 212
FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE......Page 214
Legal......Page 215
Moral......Page 217
Psychological/Pastoral......Page 218
CAUSES......Page 219
AVENUES OF ACCESS......Page 222
Rationalization......Page 224
Denial......Page 225
Depersonalization......Page 226
Splitting......Page 227
VICTIMS—THE AFTERMATH......Page 228
TREATMENT......Page 230
AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEM......Page 233
THE FUTURE......Page 234
10 WHO ABUSES?......Page 236
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE......Page 237
Genetic Predisposition......Page 238
Psychodynamic Considerations......Page 239
Psychiatric Observations......Page 241
The Social Situation......Page 243
Moral Corruption......Page 244
FOUR CASE STUDIES......Page 246
Psychodynamic Predisposition......Page 247
Situational Predisposition......Page 249
The Category of Evil......Page 250
11 CAN CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE BE PREVENTED?......Page 255
SCREENING......Page 256
The Limitations of Testing......Page 257
Abuse by Priests May Exist, But It Is Very Rare......Page 259
The Media Distorts Everything......Page 260
They Wanted It—They Liked It......Page 262
Abusers Are Sick......Page 263
The Consequences Are Not Dire and the Victim Was Sick Anyway......Page 264
Father Is Only Human......Page 265
We Are Not Responsible for Abuse; It’s a Few Bad Apples......Page 266
ECCLESIOGENIC FACTORS......Page 267
SYSTEMIC ELEMENTS......Page 268
MANDATORY CELIBACY......Page 271
ETHICALCODE......Page 272
IMPEDIMENTS TO ETHICAL DEFINITIONS......Page 274
ELEMENTS OF A CODE OF SEXUAL ETHICS......Page 275
Informed Consent......Page 276
PART IV PROCESS AND ATTAINMENT......Page 278
WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF CELIBACY?......Page 279
DEVELOPMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS......Page 280
1. The Primary Relationship......Page 281
2. Familial/Developmental......Page 283
3. Educational/Formative......Page 285
4. Ministerial/Service......Page 286
5. Expanding Awareness of Universal Interrelatedness......Page 288
1. Celibate Image and Intention......Page 289
2. Awareness of the Capacity to Be Celibate......Page 291
3. Knowledge of the Process (How to Be Celibate)......Page 292
4. Practice......Page 294
5. Commitment......Page 296
6. Achievement and Integration......Page 297
TEMPORAL STAGES......Page 299
1. Initial Awareness/Depression: Gain/Loss......Page 300
2. Like Me/Not Like Me......Page 301
3. In Control/Controlled By......Page 303
4. Alone/Lonely......Page 305
5. Integration......Page 307
13 THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CELIBACY......Page 309
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF CELIBATE ACHIEVEMENT......Page 312
2. Prayer or Interiority......Page 314
4. Service......Page 315
5. Physical Needs......Page 316
6. Balance......Page 317
7. Security......Page 319
8. Order......Page 321
9. Learning......Page 322
10. Beauty......Page 323
WHO WILL FOLLOW?......Page 324
THE CRISIS OF ABUSE......Page 327
EPILOGUE  DlMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS......Page 329
REFERENCES......Page 332
INDEX......Page 350
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 368