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The Other Side of the Altar: One Man's Life in the Catholic Priesthood

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Located in: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

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Condition: Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ... Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780374299668

Publication Year: 2003

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: Other Side of the Altar : One Man's Life in the Catholic Priesthood

Author: Paul E. Dinter

Item Length: 8.2in

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Genre: Religion

Topic: Christianity / Catholic, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Clergy

Item Width: 5.5in

Item Weight: 14.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

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In all the coverage of the priestly sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, one story has been left untold: the story of the everyday lives of Catholic priests in America, which remain so little understood as to be a secret, even as one priestly sexual predation after another has come to light. In The Other Side of the Altar, Paul Dinter tells one priest's story--his own--in such a way as to reveal the lives of a generation of priests that spanned two very different eras. These priests entered the ministry in the 1960s, when Catholic seminaries were full of young men inspired by both the Church's ancient faith and the Second Vatican Council's promises of renewal. But by the early 1970s, the priesthood--and the celibate fraternity it depended upon--proved quite different from what the Council had promised. American society had changed, too, particularly in the area of sexuality. As a result, there emerged a clerical subculture of denial and duplicity, which all but guaranteed that the sexual abuse of children by priests would be routinely covered up by the Church's bishops. Dinter, now married and raising two stepdaughters, left the priesthood in 1994 over the issue of celibacy, but not before having occasion to reflect on the whole range of priestly struggles with celibacy and sexual life in general--in Rome and rural England, on an Ivy League campus, and in parish rectories of the archdiocese of New York. His candid and affecting account--written from the other side of the altar, so to speak--makes clear that celibacy, sexuality, and power among the clergy have long been intertwined, and suggests how much must change if the Catholic Church hopes to regain the trust of its people.

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Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10

0374299668

ISBN-13

9780374299668

eBay Product ID (ePID)

2364678

Product Key Features

Book Title

Other Side of the Altar : One Man's Life in the Catholic Priesthood

Author

Paul E. Dinter

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Christianity / Catholic, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Clergy

Publication Year

2003

Genre

Religion

Number of Pages

256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

8.2in

Item Width

5.5in

Item Weight

14.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Bx4668.3.D56a3 2003

2003

Lccn

2002-032542

Dewey Decimal

282/.092 B

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Trade

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