Overview

"""Would removing the celibacy requirement really eliminate priest pedophilia?"" ""Won't tough corrective measures such as a 'zero tolerance policy' only exacerbate the priest shortage?"" These questions reflect the kind of concerns many of us are thinking and talking about lately. Despite the ongoing media coverage of sexual impropriety in the Church, there is relatively little known about sexuality issues involving priests. Sex, Priestly Ministry and the Church provides an objective and authoritative account of psychosexual development in priests and key background information on the many sexual issues facing the Church today. It is a concise, comprehensive, one-of-a-kind resource of the most current information needed to understand these sexual issues and controversies and make reasoned, responsible decisions."

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Len Sperry is a gifted writer and teacher. His narrative is complemented by illuminating case studies and then summarized well in helpful charts and tables. He writes with sensitivity and compassion and offers hope in the midst of profound organizational challenges to the institutional Roman Catholic Church.Catholic Books Review This is a timely book well written and well introduced that provides objective and authoritative documentation of the psychosocial development in priests and important background information on the many sexual issues facing the Church today.Resources Hotline The book would be an excellent resource for those involved in the training of ministers. If there is ever required reading for bishops in preparation for the National Conferences, this would be an excellent resource as the Church continues on its way to healing.Catholic Education This work is a concise, comprehensive resource of the most current information needed to understand these [current] issues and controversies and make reasoned, responsible choices.Touchstone . . . especially useful for those who work in formation of Catholic clergy and religious.Journal of Religion and Abuse . . . readers with an interest in the deeper problems of sexual abuse in the Church as well as psychiatrists, counselors, and similar professionals trying to deal with the problem will find Sperry's book very worthwhile.The Small Press Review Our complexities and struggles today are public and call for personnel and ministers with great vision, unafraid to name the truth. Sex, Priestly Ministry, and the Church might well help us on our way.Catholic Education

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Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Among his 40 published books are Ministry and Community and Transforming Self and Community, published by Liturgical Press.

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