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This text presents an insightful study of the unresolved conficts Catholics face regarding their sexuality and their spirituality - conflicts which become greater as they continue to go unaddressed within the Church. Eugene Kennedy astutely, yet respectfully, takes to task a church that condemns birth control, marriage for priests and sex outside marriage. He examines the formidable hierarchy of the church, challenging clerics who uphold papal edicts unthinkingly.
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Review:
The Catholic Church has not yet learned to speak gracefully and truthfully about sexuality, according to Eugene Kennedy's The Unhealed Wound. Kennedy's book blends history, psychology, theology, and journalistic storytelling in a sophisticated and humane analysis of where and how Catholic teaching about human sexuality has gone wrong. Teaching that flesh and spirit are locked in a battle with each other, the Catholic Church has treated human sexuality as a bane of human existence, not a gift from God. The Unhealed Wound argues that Catholicism will have a hard time righting its teachings because so much of its power as an institution depends on keeping its members in "a frightened and dependent state" regarding their own sexual impulses: "This emphasis on power diminishes [Catholicism's] true authority to help ordinary men and women put away childish things and grow up even by small steps.... the way, imperfect but tolerant of failings, we become human." --Michael Joseph Gross
About the Author:
Eugene Kennedy is an award-winning author, syndicated columnist, and professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University of America. He and his wife, Sara Charles, M.D., live in Chicago
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- PublisherHarperCollins Religious
- ISBN 10 1740500083
- ISBN 13 9781740500081
- BindingPaperback
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