Rethinking Celibacy, Reclaiming the Church

In this courageous work Michael Crosby offers a trenchant analysis of mandatory celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church. He shows how the imposition of celibacy has now revealed a deeper issue: the abuse of power as well as the abuse of women and homosexuals in the Church. Crosby asserts that:--to argue that the present discipline of mandatory celibacy is based on the New Testament is a misuse of scripture;--imposed celibacy continues to be used as a means of maintaining clerical control through f