Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited

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Summary: Celibacy System Is No Longer a Secret
Review: Richard Sipe, a former Roman Catholic priest, blows the lid off of the secret world of so-called celibacy in the US Catholic church. This tome brings you right up to date on how the celibacy system is used by a significant number of priests to sexually abuse minors and the cover-up that follows is well documented. The current scandals in the Boston and Los Angeles Arch Dioceses are exposed in shocking detail. This is a book of facts weened from the interviews of over 1,500 sexually active priests that scared me half to death. I was quite shaken after reading it. [...]