Brendan A. Mooney

The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy

History & Biography

“Debra Maria Flint demonstrates how [clerical celibacy] has caused immense suffering to both adults and children. Paul Murphy Sanderson, speaking of his harrowing experience of suffering clerical sexual abuse, reveals how the institutional church has emotionally harmed victims of clerical abuse. This work describes how mandatory clerical celibacy has fostered a culture of psychosocial and psychospiritual pathology.”