Vow of Celibacy

Vow of Celibacy
Author: Erin Judge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Bisexual women
ISBN: 9781942600725

Winner of the Bisexual Book Award for Best Novel Natalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she's spent her life chasing have left her emotionally high and dry. As Natalie sifts through her past and her present, she confronts her complicated feelings about her plus-sized figure, her bisexuality, and her thwarted career in fashion design. Piecing together toxic relationship patterns from her past, Natalie finds herself strutting down fashion runways and rekindling her passion for clothing design in the present. All the while, her best friend, Anastaze, struggles with her own secret--whether or not to reveal her true identity to the thousands of fans of her popular blog and her potential first sexual partner. Clever, sexy, and hilarious, Vow of Celibacy delves into the perilous terrain of love and relationships, the uncertainty of early adulthood, and the sustaining force of friendship. This is an irresistible novel about the stories we can't help but tell ourselves about others, and it captures in perfect pitch what it's like to be a young woman coming of age in America today.

Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience

Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience
Author: Diarmuid Ó Murchú
Publisher: Crossroad
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780824514730

The author of "Quantum Theory and Reclaiming Spirituality" offers an original work that expands the meaning--and potential for good--of the three traditional religious vows.

Virginity. A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven

Virginity. A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
Author: Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0818914009

We live in a cultural milieu in which it is no longer possible to have any confidence in external supports from society or the media to help one remain chaste - in the single state or in a life consecrated to God by vows. Today much depends on the strong personal motivations of the individual coupled with the grace of God and a heavy dose of common sense for one to live this lifestyle. Still it is not only possible to do so, but to do so with joy. This little book on celibacy and virginity for the sake of the Kingdom seeks to help create the kind of motivation necessary, drawing heavily on texts from the New Testament which address many of the problems and objections frequently leveled against the very idea of living chastely with the restraint, discipline and self-control required. Young people, for whom this book was mainly written, are shown how to live the charism of virginity and celibacy charismatically - that is "as a gift, in all humility, with joy and perfect freedom."

Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy

Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy
Author: Christian Cochini
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2002-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780898709513

"Fr Christian Cochini has made a thorough examination, based on years of extensive research, of the topic of clerical celibacy in the first seven centuries of the Church's history. ...." [from back cover]

Celibacy and Soul

Celibacy and Soul
Author: Susan J. Pollard
Publisher: Fisher King Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1771690135

Celibacy and Soul: Exploring the Depths of Chastity is for women and men who have chosen to live into celibate chastity. It is also for those people who live celibate love, and though not vowed to a religious calling, know the way of celibate love as their path. You may find yourself celibate not by choice or you may hope it is a temporary stage. Perhaps life interrupted your plans with the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, the situation of illness, the trauma of abuse, or you simply didn’t settle with the desired partner and you want to find meaning in your life as a celibate person. Celibacy and Soul is also useful for those in the helping professions, as the work of a therapist asks a celibate kind of loving that can be catalyst for change in both clients and practitioners.

Keeping the Vow

Keeping the Vow
Author: Donald Paul Sullins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199860041

Based on one hundred fifteen interviews augmented by biographical, survey, and historical research, Keeping the Vow tells the story of married priests and their wives, their unusual and difficult journey from Anglicanism, and their life in the Catholic Church. The book combines personal narratives and sociological analysis to provide a clear view of the priesthood's collective features, and discusses the implications of the married priesthood for the future of the Church.

Priestly Celibacy

Priestly Celibacy
Author: Gary Selin
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016-03-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813228417

Pope Francis has called mandatory priestly celibacy a "gift for the Church," but added "since it is not a dogma, the door is always open" to change. As this Church discipline continues to be debated, it is important for Catholics to delve into the theological and not merely pragmatic reasons behind its continuation. Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations, therefore, fills a critical gap in the current theological literature on this important topic of ecclesial ministry and life, and also helps to contribute to the advancement of the rather underdeveloped theology of priestly celibacy.

A History of Celibacy

A History of Celibacy
Author: Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2000
Genre: Celibacy
ISBN: 0684849437

What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.

Freeing Celibacy

Freeing Celibacy
Author: Donald B. Cozzens
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814631607

Cozzens explores priestly celibacy as a source of power and burden of obligation, as spiritual calling and gift of the Spirit. He affirms celibacy as a charism, a gift that is true for some, but only when received as a grace.

Celibacy, a Love Story

Celibacy, a Love Story
Author: Mimi Bull
Publisher: Bauhan Pub
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019
Genre: Children of clergy
ISBN: 9780872332867

Mimi Bull grew up secure in the love of family, friends, and neighbors, never questioning the unusual circumstances that caused her to be adopted by two women in the late 1930s. It was years before she learned the secret truth: that one of the women was her grandmother, the other her biological mother, and that the story of her adoption had been concocted not only to shield her mother's reputation, but to hide the fact that her father was the gregarious young parish priest everyone adored. It has only been very recently that the Catholic Church has begun to acknowledge the existence of other children of priests, and Bull writes candidly of the emotional toll that this policy of secrecy and denial took on her--"I should like to have lived a life with my loving parents, knowing who we all were, knowing my father's family from the beginning, and without the forty years of depression that compromised me and those I loved."