Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Rethinking the sex crises in Catholicism and Anglicanism

Rethinking the sex crises in Catholicism and Anglicanism
The journalistic commentators on the Roman Catholic sex crises tend to take the view, as I have already mentioned, that celibacy is 'impossible', or virtually so

By Sarah Coakley
ABC Religion and Ethics
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2010/07/14/2953473.htm
July 14, 2010

Anyone who has attentively followed the press coverage of the recent sex scandals in the Roman Catholic church in Boston, on the one hand, and of the divisions over homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, on the other, may have become aware of certain pressing contemporary 'cultural contradictions' on matters of sexuality and desire that these two crises enshrine, and to which I wish to draw explicit attention.

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