THE SILENT WITNESS: THE JOURNEY OF CELIBACY IN THE LIFE OF DIOCESAN CLERGY OF PAGADIAN
1,2,3,4Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, jumar.lague@sccpag.edu.ph, enrique.tapanan@sccpag.edu.p, raven.leyte@sccpag.edu.ph, and jinggle.selgas@sccpag.edu.ph : 10.17510/paradigma.v15i3.1875 : August 27, 2025; Reviewed: October 2, 2025; Accepted ...
Jumar T. Lague +3 more
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How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence the Psychological Health of Catholic Priests
Roman Catholic diocesan priests are a subgroup of men with unique religious and spiritual roles, beliefs, and practices. This qualitative study of 15 priests from the mid-Atlantic area of the United States focused on how priests’ relationship with God ...
Anthony Isacco PhD +4 more
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Effect of the Variable of Marriage on the Reproductive Right in the Legal Systems of Islam, the United Kingdom and the United States [PDF]
Childbearing and its related aspects is one of the issues that is of significance in the current Iranian society and one of the factor which influences it is marriage.
Mohaddeseh Moeinifar
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The Enigma of Sexual Desire, Part 1: A Brief Review of Classical, Historical, Philosophical, and Literary Perspectives [PDF]
Throughout human history and across cultures, sexual desire has been of interest to the general public and, now more recently, to the medical/psychological community. Part 1 of this two part series examines the historical aspects of the concept of sexual
Rowland, David L
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Celibacy and the child sexual abuse crisis [PDF]
Celibacy has received a great deal of media attention recently due to the well-publicized sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. The Boston Globe reported in January 2002 that a Roman Catholic priest had sexually abused 138 children over ...
Plante, Thomas G
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A presente pesquisa analisa dois testamentos-cerrados escritos, no século XIX, por padres que reconheceram sua prole, direcionaram suas heranças e, ainda, reconheceram as "faltas graves" que cometeram.
Maria da Conceição Silva
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The aim of this paper is to answer the question: How should the bishop act towards his presbyterate so that its members would not commit sexual offences, particularly the most serious ones?
Piotr Majer
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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Biological contingency and adaptation to celibacy among girls aged 35 and over in Yazd city [PDF]
Celibacy among women in Iran is on the rise. This phenomenon varies across different decades and contexts, influenced by social and cultural conditions, which can impart diverse meanings and biological patterns.
Ahmad Kalateh Sadati +3 more
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