By D. Paul Sullins
Following the Episcopal Church's 1976 determination to ordain girls, Catholic leaders in the United States and Rome have been approached through Episcopal clergy who adverse the choice and sought conversion for that reason. The Catholics replied through constructing ideas that may let the Church to obtain married convert clergymen as exceptions to the rule of thumb of celibacy-a decree often called the Pastoral Provision. during this interesting booklet, D. Paul Sullins brings to mild the untold tales of those curious creatures: married Catholic monks. Sullins explores their daily lives, their trip to Catholicism, and their perspectives on matters very important to the Church. unusually, he unearths, married Catholic monks are extra conservative than their celibate colleagues on approximately each factor, together with celibacy: they believe that monks should still, typically, no longer be allowed to marry.
Drawing on over one hundred fifteen interviews with monks and their other halves, in addition to unparalleled entry to the U.S. documents of the Pastoral Provision, Keeping the Vow deals the 1st finished examine those households and their strange and hard trip from Anglicanism to Catholicism. trying to the long run, Sullins speculates on what the reviews of those clergymen may possibly let us know concerning the way forward for priestly celibacy.
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