The Serpent and the Dove: Celibacy in Literature and Life by A.W. Richard Sipe

The Serpent and the Dove: Celibacy in Literature and Life

A.W. Richard Sipe

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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Richard Sipe, himself a former monk and priest, has made a lifelong venture of determining the reality and meaning of religious celibacy. Even an adequate operational definition of religious celibacy, he says, has been avoided by Catholic hierarch...

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