Why Priests Leave
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Leaving The Priesthood
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Author : Robert Barzan
language : en
Publisher: Robert Barzan
Release Date : 1996
Leaving The Priesthood written by Robert Barzan and has been published by Robert Barzan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Catholic ex-priests categories.
Why Priests Leave
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Author : John Anthony O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Why Priests Leave written by John Anthony O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Catholic ex-priests categories.
Leaving The Priesthood
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Author : Emmanuel R. Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
Release Date : 2001
Leaving The Priesthood written by Emmanuel R. Fernandez and has been published by Ateneo University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
Shattered Vows
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Author : David Rice
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1990
Shattered Vows written by David Rice and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Religion categories.
Directory On The Ministry And Life Of Priests
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Directory On The Ministry And Life Of Priests written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Clergy categories.
Shattered Vows
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Author : David Rice
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 1990
Shattered Vows written by David Rice and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
The Priest Is Not His Own
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Author : Fulton J. Sheen
language : en
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Release Date :
The Priest Is Not His Own written by Fulton J. Sheen and has been published by Ravenio Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
Most books on the priesthood may be grouped into three categories: theological, pastoral and sociological. The theological treatises emphasize the priest as the minister and ambassador of Christ; the pastoral writings are concerned with the priest in the pulpit, the priest in the confessional, the priest at prayer, etc. The sociological writings, which are the latest type, refrain almost entirely from the spiritual and are concerned with the statistical study of the reaction of the faithful, the unbelievers and the general public to the priest. Is there room for another category? Such a possibility presented itself in writing our Life of Christ. In that book, we tried to show that, unlike anyone else, Our Lord came on earth not to live but to die. Death for our Redemption was the goal of His sojourn here, the gold that He was seeking. Every parable, every incident in His life—even the call of the Apostles, the temptation, the Transfiguration, the long conversation with the woman at the well—was focused upon that salutary death. He was, therefore, not primarily a teacher, but a Savior. The dark days in which that Life of Christ was written were hours when ink and gall did mix to reveal the mystery of the Crucifix. More and more that vision of Christ as Savior began to illumine the priesthood, and out of it came the thoughts in this book. To save anyone from reading it through, we here state briefly the thesis. We who have received the Sacrament of Orders call ourselves “priests”. The author does not recall any priest ever having said, “I was ordained a ‘victim’ ”, nor did he ever say, “I am studying to be a victim.” That seemed almost alien to being a priest. The seminary always told us to be “good” priests; never were we told to be willing victims. And yet was not Christ, the Priest, a Victim? Did He not come to die? He did not offer a lamb, a bullock or doves; He never offered anything except Himself. He gave Himself up on our behalf, a sacrifice breathing out fragrance as He offered it to God. (Ephesians 5:2) Pagan priests, Old Testament priests, medicine men, all offered a sacrifice apart from themselves. But not Our Lord. He was Sacerdos-Victima. This being so, just as we miss much in the life of Christ by not showing that the shadow of the Cross cast itself even over the crib and the carpenter shop as well as over His public life, so we have a mutilated concept of our priesthood if we envisage it apart from making ourselves victims in the prolongation of His Incarnation. There is nothing else in this book but that idea. And if the reader would like to hear that chord struck a hundred times, he may now proceed.
The Priests We Need To Save The Church
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Author : Kevin Wells
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release Date : 2019-08-16
The Priests We Need To Save The Church written by Kevin Wells and has been published by Sophia Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with Religion categories.
While dissolute bishops and priests around the world grab headlines for their untoward words and deeds, too many other unfruitful priests minister as little more than glad-handing bachelors doing social service work. Top and bottom, is this the Church that Christ intended? Are these the priests we need? “No!” cries author Kevin Wells in these compelling pages that showcase how heroic priests can faithfully tread the narrow path of holy self-sacrifice first blazed by the apostles themselves. From scores of insightful interviews with modern priests, exorcists, seminary formators, and even disillusioned laity, Wells here draws forth a blueprint for priestly holiness that can once again fill our Church with priests abounding with sincere, supernatural faith, on fire with God's love, and moved by the irresistible impulse to save souls, no matter the cost to themselves. Reading this book will deepen your own faith and help you understand what all
Sex Priests And Power
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Author : A. W. Richard Sipe
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Sex Priests And Power written by A. W. Richard Sipe and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Celibacy categories.
Richard Sipe examines the continuing sexual crisis facing the Catholic Church today. Has the storm of publicity and controversy caused the church to acknowledge any of the accusations? Will the church accept statistical evidence or alter the way it trains its clergy? How has it come to grips with reforming or retraining abusers? Has it acknowledged the spread of AIDS among its ranks? Why does the church oppress women and react with hostility and fear towards them? Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis addresses these and other questions.
The Other Side Of The Altar
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Author : Paul E. Dinter
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-06-29
The Other Side Of The Altar written by Paul E. Dinter and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with Religion categories.
In all the coverage of the priestly sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, one story has been left untold: the story of the everyday lives of Catholic priests in America, which remain so little understood as to be a secret, even as one priestly sexual predation after another has come to light. In The Other Side of the Altar, Paul Dinter tells one priest's story--his own--in such a way as to reveal the lives of a generation of priests that spanned two very different eras. These priests entered the ministry in the 1960s, when Catholic seminaries were full of young men inspired by both the Church's ancient faith and the Second Vatican Council's promises of renewal. But by the early 1970s, the priesthood--and the celibate fraternity it depended upon--proved quite different from what the Council had promised. American society had changed, too, particularly in the area of sexuality. As a result, there emerged a clerical subculture of denial and duplicity, which all but guaranteed that the sexual abuse of children by priests would be routinely covered up by the Church's bishops. Dinter, now married and raising two stepdaughters, left the priesthood in 1994 over the issue of celibacy, but not before having occasion to reflect on the whole range of priestly struggles with celibacy and sexual life in general--in Rome and rural England, on an Ivy League campus, and in parish rectories of the archdiocese of New York. His candid and affecting account--written from the other side of the altar, so to speak--makes clear that celibacy, sexuality, and power among the clergy have long been intertwined, and suggests how much must change if the Catholic Church hopes to regain the trust of its people.