Sex, Priests, And Power

A.W. Richard Sipe, an ordained Roman Catholic Priest, now retired from active ministry, is married and lives in Maryland, where he is a psychotherapist in private prac­tice. Since 1972 he has held an appointment as lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently he serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Sexual Trauma Insti­tute, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy.

PREFACE, PART I SYMPTOMS OF THE CRISIS 1. PRIESTS AND CHILDREN 2. CRIME, SIN, AND SICKNESS 3. DISCOURSE: THE SEXUAL TOWER OF BABEL 4. PATTERNS OF CELIBATE/SEXUAL ADJUSTMENT PART II FUNCTION AND FAILURE 5. SYSTEM: FUNCTION/ DYSFUNCTION 6. PRIESTS AND WOMEN 7. PRIESTS AND MEN PART III THE STRUCTURE OF CRISIS 8. THE STRUCTURE BENEATH THE CRISIS 9. PRIESTS WHO SUFFER; PRIESTS WHO SUCCEED 10. THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE