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| | Celibacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Clerical celibacy is a requirement for priests, a church law which is maintained by the Western Catholic Church. | | | Recently, the issue of celibacy for Catholic priests has again become a source of heated debate, partly in response to the decline in vocations, but also in the wake of discoveries of longstanding ephebophilic behaviour of a number of Catholic priests in the USA and elsewhere. | | | Celibacy refers either to being unmarried or to sexual abstinence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celibacy of the Clergy |
| | Celibacy in a bishop became a matter of precept. | | | Undoubtedly during this period the traditions of sacerdotal celibacy in Western Christendom suffered severely but even though a large number of the clergy, not only priests but bishops, openly took wives and begot children to whom they transmitted their benefices, the principle of celibacy was never completely surrendered in the official enactments of the Church. | | | From the earliest period the Church was personified and conceived of by her disciples as the Virgin Bride and as the pure Body of Christ, or again as the Virgin Mother (parthenos meter), and it was plainly fitting that this virgin Church should be served by a virgin priesthood. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03481a.htm
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| | Is the celibacy of priests found in the Scripture? |
| | Not only is celibacy not required by God, it is a doctrine of demons. | | | Celibacy is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God." Pg. | | | Is the celibacy of priests found in the Scripture? |
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http://www.chick.com/reading/books/160/160_36.asp
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| | EDITORIAL: Costs of clerical celibacy are rising |
| | John Paul II said in 1993 that celibacy “does not belong to the essential structure of the priesthood.&; That fact is embedded in canon law: Of the 22 Catholic churches sui iuris in union with the bishop of Rome, only the Latin church requires celibacy of all its priests. | | | Celibacy can thus be natural, purposeful and a rich form of spiritual practice. | | | Indeed, for some mystics celibacy is the highest praise of sexual expression, since only by surrendering it can they can feel the emptiness that opens the soul to God. |
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http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/090399/090399p.htm
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| | FT December 2002: Celibacy in Context |
| | Celibacy is a common calling, expressing the faith of the Church in the coming Kingdom. | | | Seen in its true context of asceticism, celibacy ceases to be a legal requirement for a small section of the Christian faithful and is revealed instead as an aspect of the universal vocation of all believers. | | | Celibacy means the willingness to see in sexuality not something merely animal, or simply useful or enjoyable, but instead something mystical. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0212/opinion/davies.html
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| | The Cafeteria Is Closed: Celibacy |
| | Father García-Morato: Of course, celibacy is not a dogma of faith. | | | The topic came to the fore in Spain, where a married Anglican minister converted to the Catholic Church and was ordained. | | | However, the conviction of the Church in regard to the congruence of the priesthood with the priestly ministry is neither pragmatic nor situational, but profoundly based. |
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http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/2005/09/celibacy.html
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| | celibacy on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Celibacy and the future of the priesthood: priests should be married. | | | In the West, celibacy was common among the parish clergy beginning the 3d cent.; as time passed, the Holy See became adamant in opposing the marriage of the secular clergy (see orders, holy). | | | A standard defense of the Western discipline of celibacy for parish priests is that marriage would prevent the priest from giving his complete attention to his parish; critics complain that unmarried clergy are unfit to give counsel on marital and sexual problems. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/celibacy.asp
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| | The Relevance of Priestly Celibacy Today |
| | The ‘yes’ to celibacy is a question of faith, not only on the part of the men who are ordained, but also on the part of their families and the entire people of God. | | | Celibacy cannot and should not be thought of in a merely negative sense or in reference to the purely natural aspect, according to which it is believed that, once the ‘obstacle’ or the ‘no’ to marriage has been removed, a ‘boom’ in priestly ordinations will be the immediate and natural result. | | | Celibacy is a charism which the Holy Spirit bestows on some in function of a good that redounds to the good of the whole Church. |
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http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/rc_con_cclergy_doc_01011993_revel_en.html
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| | Celibacy |
| | The whole celibacy nonsense was also the result of middle age Gnostic influences that false taught that the body was dirty and not spiritual and to be more spiritual you had to avoid natural sexuality. | | | If someone chooses celibacy it may be due to lack of self-esteem, performance anxiety, or religious false teachings based on shame based, sex negative tradition rather than true scriptural sexuality. | | | Caroline House: "Personally, celibacy is not a choice I would have chosen in my youth but after talking to numerous members of every flavor from fundamentalists to Buddhists who have chosen it, I accept with wonder and appreciation the choice they have made. |
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http://www.libchrist.com/bible/celibacy.html
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| | Why Celibacy |
| | Second, celibacy should be a spiritual ideal, a longing to commune with God for with the love of God in one's heart, nothing is impossible. | | | The practice of celibacy is an age-old, multi-religious practice to which men and women, desiring to serve a higher power by joining religious orders, commit their lives. | | | Thirdly, celibacy is a witness to action of the spirit that draws humans to prayer and devotion. |
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http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/dialogue/events/2003_celibacy.html
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| | Catholic Bishops Slam HBO `Celibacy' Documentary -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Celibacy serves the Church as an institution more than it serves Catholic priests or laypeople. | | | The countercultural witness of celibacy in a sex-saturated society may be more valuable to the Holy Spirit than it was 30 years ago. | | | Interviews with Hindu priests, laymen and Buddhists who slough off worldly desires show how the renunciation of sexual activity is a potent force in many religious traditions. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/148/story_14827_1.html
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| | Raymond Arroyo on Clerical Celibacy & Catholic Church on National Review Online |
| | Five years later, the Council of Carthage announced: "Previous councils have decreed that bishops, priests, and deacons must be continent and perfectly chaste, as becomes ministers of God...as the Apostles taught." By the Council of Toledo in 633, a bishop's permission was needed for a priest to marry. | | | From the time of Christ forward celibacy was the Catholic norm for priests &; married clergy were merely tolerated. | | | Finally in 1139, Pope Gregory VII declared celibacy mandatory for all priests; formalizing in law what was already the general practice for centuries. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-arroyo051602.asp
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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW - The Struggle With Celibacy |
| | One standard defense of celibacy is that it frees priests from the obligations of marriage and thereby allows them to respond to the needs of the faithful without reservations. | | | This aspect of celibacy, I said to him, was much more difficult than the lack of a sexual companion. | | | In fact, there is the danger that celibacy will give priests a feeling of being separated from others, forming a caste removed from ordinary men and women. |
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http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n18/CelibacyStruggle-en.shtml
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| | Celibacy in the Priesthood |
| | Given the history of how celibacy came to be required for clergy in the Roman Catholic Church (except in several of the Eastern Rites), next week we will now examine the spirituality which undergirds the regulation, see "The Spirituality of Celibacy". | | | Nevertheless, in the early Church, clerical celibacy was not mandated. | | | Moreover, the Council asserted that celibacy was not impossible to live but at the same time recognized that celibates needed the grace of God to do so. |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0165.html
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| | Catholic Insight: Why Celibacy? |
| | A more practical reason for priestly celibacy is simply that you do not have time for wife and children as a priest. | | | A priest could not do this because he would be torn between his responsibilities as a spiritual father and his responsibilities to his wife and children. | | | What follows are selections of passages that demonstrate the celibacy as a state for life is approved by the Bible, recommended especially in order to be free for prayer and focus on God, and will be rewarded greatly in the afterlife: |
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http://www.cathinsight.com/apologetics/celibacy2.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Catholic scandal reawakens celibacy debates |
| | Catholic teaching on celibacy is that the unmarried priesthood is a life of chastity and dedication to the service of people in the name of the church. | | | However, Pope Paul VI writes in his 1967 encyclical, Sacerdotalis Caelibatus ("The Celibacy of the Priest"), that the New Testament "does not openly demand celibacy of sacred ministers," and Jesus didn't require this of his apostles. | | | Celibacy first became part of the legislated discipline of the Roman Church in 306, when a local council in Elvira, Spain, "forbade bishops, priests, deacons and other ministers to have wives." |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/2002/2002-03-18-catholic-celibacy.htm
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| | Celibacy and the Catholic Priest |
| | There are some emotionally healthy relationships between priests who are faithful to their vows of celibacy and with women. | | | She draws a line of distinction between celibacy that accompanies the vows of a religious order and chastity which she feels should be preserved until marriage. | | | At the Council of Nicaea in 325, a proposal to require celibacy for all priests was defeated and at the Council of Trullo in 692, marriage rights for priests were reasserted. |
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http://www.arthurstreet.com/celibacy1993.html
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| | Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church |
| | Reconsidering celibacy and maleness as preconditions for entering the Catholic priesthood is the right thing to do theologically and for the life of the church. | | | While certain members of the clergy support the abolition of celibacy, others defend the practice as a sacred expression of their love for God. | | | By endowing priests with an aura of discipline and trust, the Catholic Church's policy on celibacy fosters pedophilia and facilitates coverups. |
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http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/extras/celibacy.htm
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| | Introduction, Celebacy |
| | Celibacy is an obligation imposed by the institutional Church. | | | Celibacy was not part of the Hebrew tradition. | | | Henry Charles Lea surmises that Jerome, who was familiar with Buddhism, may have been influenced by its religious folklore, especially by the story of Maya and her husband taking a vow of chastity so that she might give birth to the Buddha in purity. |
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http://www.ejhs.org/volume2/walsh/walsh1.htm
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| | Celibacy and the Priesthood |
| | Finally, celibacy is an eschatological sign to the Church, a living-out in the present of the universal celibacy of heaven: "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven" (Matt. | | | The first and most basic confusion is thinking of priestly celibacy as a dogma or doctrine—a central and irreformable part of the faith, believed by Catholics to come from Jesus and the apostles. | | | Of course, this is different from Catholic priestly celibacy, which is not divinely ordained; yet the divine precedent still supports the legitimacy of the human institution. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Celibacy_and_the_Priesthood.asp
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| | Crosswalk.com - Australian Catholic Church Divided Over Priestly Celibacy |
| | Opponents of mandatory celibacy also say the practice only became standard in the 11th or 12th century, and was only affirmed by the Council of Trent in 1545. | | | Copies of a summary of her report were sent to every bishop in the country, although she said she had had no response from any of them. | | | In 2003, more than 120 Milwaukee priests signed a letter urging the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to allow married men to be ordained, also linking their request to the need for more candidates to the priesthood. |
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http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1309812.html
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| | Celibacy talks are favored |
| | She added that priestly celibacy is a church discipline, not a doctrine, and that celibacy would not be banned for priests who choose that life. | | | But don't look for celibacy, which is part of the church catechism, to get serious scrutiny as long as Pope John Paul II is leading the church. | | | Diocesan priests favored a discussion of celibacy by a 49-19 vote, with three undecided, while religious priests, such as Jesuits, Franciscans and others, favored the discussion 28-0, with one undecided. |
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http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/1101celibacy-CP.html
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| | The tabloid writers may be the most maudlin, but most of them don't present our case with a fraction of the vehemence of some of those serious journalists who have taken up the cause of marriage for priests, as a mask of their own hatred of the church. | | | Two, or is it three, Irish bishops have questioned the discipline of celibacy for priests. | | | But I know other priests who are unhappy for reasons quite unrelated to celibacy. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/CELIPROB.TXT
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| | Tracing the Glorious Origins of Celibacy |
| | Pope Siricius answering a specific consultation about clerical celibacy in 385 affirmed that bishops and priests who continue marital relations after ordination violate an irrevocable law from the very inception of the Church that binds them to continence. | | | Based on solid documentation, these authors show that although one cannot speak of celibacy in the strict sense of the word (not being married), it is certain that since apostolic times the Church had as a norm that men elevated to the deaconate, priesthood and the episcopate should observe continence. | | | Since most recruiting for the priesthood was already among the unmarried, the Second Lateran Council forbade priestly marriage, declaring it null and void in the case of priests, deacons or anyone with a solemn vow of religion. |
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http://www.tfp.org/TFPForum/catholic_perspective/tracing_the_glorious_origins_of_celibacy.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Sexuality: Celibacy |
| | Election, Education, and Celibacy of the Clergy - An article on the topic of bishops voting on celibacy in the clergy as it applies to the Christian Church. | | | Celibacy and Virginity - Intends to prove that virginity is a realistic lifestyle choice, and to show what effect it will have on one's relationship with God. | | | Sex and sexuality - Elaborate investigation into the spiritual and physical consequences of sex and celibacy. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Sexuality/Celibacy
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| | Home > News & Updates > What Celibacy Is, and Isn't |
| | What any serious Catholic can grasp, I think, is that celibacy is essentially something positive, not negative: the embodiment in practice of a complete gift of self to Christ and the Church. | | | Recent historical scholarship, however, demonstrates that there has been a deep linkage between celibacy and the priesthood from the first centuries of the Church. | | | That is what living the promise of celibacy is meant to express. |
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http://www.eppc.org/news/newsID.1255/news_detail.asp
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| | Clerical Celibacy and Pedophilic Priests |
| | There is strong evidence that this serious and widespread problem is caused, at least in part, by the Catholic Church's clerical celibacy requirement and its other sexually repressive doctrines. | | | Contrary to claims being made by some, the problem of sexual abuse by priests is not unique to modern society but has existed for centuries. | | | In the sixteenth century, the founder of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, opposed the Catholic Church's clerical celibacy requirement because of the harms he believed it caused. |
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http://www.humanismbyjoe.com/clerical_celibacy_and_pedophilic.htm
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| | CNS STORY: Focus on celibacy grew in U.S. bishops' priestly formation norms |
| | It focused mainly on the theological understanding of celibacy and the importance of prayer and a strong spiritual life for living it. | | | It emphasized a need to integrate celibacy formation with "psychosexual, social and spiritual development" and with the seminarian's spiritual, academic and pastoral formation for the priesthood. | | | It said seminary faculty must approach formation for celibacy more comprehensively and not expect that it will be "satisfactorily dealt with" just in spiritual direction, confession and part of an academic course in theology. |
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| | Celibacy questions the church's policy on abstinence. By Dana Stevens |
| | The film's central and most persuasive section is devoted to interviews with a group of current and former priests, all of whom testify to the havoc the celibacy doctrine has wreaked with their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. | | | The first part of Celibacy is a National Geographic-style travelogue, a brief tour through the sexual doctrines of major world religions. | | | Still, Thomas is on the mark with his point that, while most major faiths include some individual orders of celibate monks or nuns, only Catholicism requires abstinence from all members of the clergy. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2103028
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| | Islamset - Celibacy |
| | Because it is against nature, history tells us of the betrayal of celibacy by some monks and nuns in earlier times, leading to illicit sexual relations or sexual perversion. | | | At the time of prophet Moharnmad peace be upon him, three muslim men enquired about the worship of the prophet. | | | "God has replaced to us the celibacy of the christians with this truthful religion." (Tabarani) |
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http://www.islamset.com/bioethics/obstet/celibacy.html
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| | JS Online: Effect of celibacy letter debated |
| | Advocates of optional celibacy note that the church allows married Protestant clergy - most notably Episcopal priests - to convert to Catholicism and to function as married priests. | | | 1073-1085: Pope Gregory VII declares that celibacy be universally observed as part of an overall reform of the church. | | | The Milwaukee-area Catholic priests who signed a letter supporting optional celibacy have roiled the waters of debate, with some people saying the ripples could turn into a tidal wave of change while others believe the issue will wash meaninglessly against the walls of the Vatican. |
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| | The Celibate FAQ |
| | The next category is that of monks, nuns, priests and religious people for whom celibacy is a part of a spiritual path. | | | Celibacy should be recognised as a valid alternative sexual lifestyle, although probably not everyone is suited to it.” | | | An essay on celibacy and its spiritual significance from the Tantra/Yoga perspective is at |
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| | Brahmacharya (Celibacy) |
| | The ascetics and saviours of ancient India, when married, used to follow this excellent rule very carefully for this purpose, and also used to teach by example and practice how to lead a life of a Brahmachari even as a householder. | | | It is impossible to be strong and healthy unless males and females, boys and girls, try their level best to keep up Brahmacharya or the vow of celibacy. | | | Even so, you cannot have health and spiritual life without celibacy. |
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http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/teachings/brahmacharya.htm
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| | HBO: Celibacy - Interviews |
| | While researching through some of the ancient records, I was surprised at how specific they were in giving reasons for enforcing celibacy, which has much to do with protecting church property, preventing priests from passing their legacies on to their sons, and points like that. | | | I hope that someone in high positions of the Roman Catholic Church will rethink the value of celibacy and how, in its present form, is quite damaging to the church. | | | ANTONY: I knew that the celibacy was introduced around 1136, but I didn't remember any reference to celibacy in the four Gospels. |
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http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/celibacy/interview.html
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| | Celibacy, Meditation, and Enlightenment |
| | Lord Buddha, Christ, Krishna, and all of the great gurus: They all taught sexual restraint and morality, with celibacy the square-one, starting point of the spiritual mystic's road. | | | Present Day Spiritual Exemplars Of Celibacy and Renunciation | | | Quotations of Spiritual Masters On Restraint and Celibacy: |
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| | Technorati Tag: celibacy |
| | Celibacy, Renunciation and Enlightenment Celibacy, renunciation and enlightenment. | | | Quotes from Yogananda, Ramakrishna and others on the importance of celibacy in obtaining the higher spiritual life of the saints. | | | Posts tagged Celibacy per day for the last 30 days. |
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| | SexYOUality @ Scarleteen.com - Abstinence and Celibacy |
| | What we really should be talking about here, when people say abstinence, is celibacy, which is the choice not to have a sexual partner for any period of time. | | | More times than not, it is because no one has defined abstinence for them, or told them what TO do, instead of simply telling them what not to. | | | That aside, there are a good number of other reasons to be celibate at various times in your life. |
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| | Celibacy |
| | Brahmacharya is purity in thought, word and deed. | | | In a special sense it is celibacy or control of the sex desire in thought, word and deed. |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/celibacy.htm
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| | All About My Vagina : Review: Women, Passion & Celibacy |
| | All About My Vagina : Review: Women, Passion & Celibacy | | | Her definition emphasizes personal independence over genital abstinence, and offers that celibacy is not deprivation but more like a form of sexual vegetarianism that can be chosen for positive reasons and that offers its own benefits such as personal, political or spiritual growth, independence, and freedom from the power struggles of sexual relationships. | | | Throughout Women, Passion & Celibacy she is often defensive, bitter, or aggressive in tone, which can make for difficult reading in places, especially, I imagine, for men reading the book. |
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http://www.myvag.net/reviews/books/passioncelibacy
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| | Involuntary Celibacy |
| | Note that I am not a professional counsellor of any kind, just someone who has experienced involuntary celibacy. | | | lonely, alone, shyness, shy, social phobia, support, virgin, celibate, late bloomer, marriage, husband, wife, divorce, no sex, girlfriend, boyfriend, incel, marcel, celibacy, never had a, date, dating, relationship, partner, sex, masturbation | | | I started working on the Involuntary Celibacy project in 1996 and was involved with this site and the mailing list until about 1999. |
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