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Priest [videorecording] / by Roache, Linus,actor.; Wilkinson, Tom,1948-actor.(CARDINAL)847978; Carlyle, Robert,1961-actor.; Tyson, Cathy,actor.; Bird, Antonia,director.; McGovern, Jimmy,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)393483; Ward, Josephine,producer.; Faber, George,producer.; BBC Films.(CARDINAL)342864; Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Production designer, Raymond Langhorn ; editor, Susan Spivey ; director of photography, Fred Tammes ; music, Andy Roberts ; executive producer, Mark Shivas.Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson.A young Roman Catholic priest in a Liverpool parish must learn to deal with the issues of homosexuality and incest, as well as conflicts between his vows and his conscience.Rated R.DVD
Subjects: Priests; Gay clergy; Celibacy; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The devil's playground [videorecording] / by Baker, Ian,1947-cinematographer.(CARDINAL)848563; Burke, Simon,actor.; Dignam, Arthur,actor.; Keneally, Thomas,actor.(CARDINAL)348214; McCallum, Charles,actor.; Schepisi, Fred,film director,film producer,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)842698; Tate, Nick,actor.(CARDINAL)724649; Artsploitation Films (Firm); Australian Film Commission.; Film House Company.;
Director of photography, Ian Baker ; music, Bruce Smeaton ; editor, Brian Kavanagh.Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Thomas Keneally, Charles McCallum.Young men are torn between physical desire and religious discipline in a Catholic seminary where students and priests alike struggle to resist temptations of the flesh.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, wide screen 1.85:1; mono.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Boarding schools; Catholic theological seminaries; Celibacy; Lust; Teenage boys;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Revelations / by Sharratt, Mary,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions. Julian offers up a confession of her own: she has written a secret, radical book about her own visions, Revelations of Divine Love. Nearing the end of her life and fearing Church authorities, Julian entrusts her precious book to Margery, who sets off the adventure of a lifetime to secretly spread Julian's words. --
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373-; Julian, of Norwich, 1343-; Julian, of Norwich, 1343-; Women; Women mystics; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Celibacy; Middle Ages; Women.; Womyn.; Celibacy.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15
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God among the Shakers : a search for stillness and faith at Sabbathday Lake / by Skees, Suzanne,1962-(CARDINAL)641570;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275).A history of the Shakers explores their beliefs in communal ownership, celibacy, and the simple life, and profiles the last surviving community of Shakers in Maine
Subjects: Shakers; Spirituality;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The accidental virgin / by Frankel, Valerie.(CARDINAL)434456;
A typical single, twentysomething New Yorker, Stacy becomes worried about her long spell of celibacy and embarks on a series of blind dates, Internet dating, fix-ups, and other attempts to break the spell.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Dating (Social customs); Separation (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The Priest's Wife [videorecording] / by Loren, Sophia.actor.; Mastroianni, Marcello,actor.;
A Carlo Ponti production, screenplay by Riggero Maccari, directed by Dino Risi.Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni."Father Don Mario [Marcello Mastroianni] has pledged obedience and celibacy. Alas, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Especially when lovely Valeria Billi [Sophia Loren] sets her dark brown eyes and romantic designs on him."-back coverMPAA rating: Not ratedDVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby digital.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships.; Priests.;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hot : a novel / by Smith, Laura L.,1969-(CARDINAL)491217;
High-schooler Lindsey has always attracted boys who seem only interested in her body, but when she begins dating handsome senior Noah, she finds the real connection she has craved, but her Christian faith and commitment to celibacy are tested.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.;
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Can we save the Catholic Church? / by Küng, Hans,1928-2021author.(CARDINAL)139230;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350).A diagnosis -- A gravely, perhaps even terminally, ill church? -- The Roman system -- Seeds of a chronic illness -- Rehabilitation and relapse -- The great rescue operation -- Ecumenical therapy -- The vision remains.A Catholic theologian describes how, despite the optimism of Vatican II, the Catholic Church's return to conservatism has hurt its status in the modern world, advocating a church renewal that addresses issues of sexuality, celibacy of priests, and the role of women.
Subjects: Catholic Church; Church renewal;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of knowledge : a novel / by Grumbach, Doris.(CARDINAL)517128;
The struggle of four people--two men and two women--to come to terms with their sexuality. The novel picks them up in childhood on the brink of puberty and follows them as they turn to homosexuality, lesbianism, incest and in one case celibacy. By the author of Fifty Days of Solitude.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Gay men; Homosexuality; Incest; Gay men.; Homosexuality.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Confessions of a gay priest : a memoir of sex, love, abuse, and scandal in the Catholic seminary / by Rastrelli, Tom,1974-author.(CARDINAL)831793;
"A sexual abuse survivor unapologetically confesses the intimate workings of the Catholic seminary, celibacy and priesthood during an era of sexual scandal and exposes how priests are "formed" to perpetuate a cycle of abuse where truth is relative, chastity is a myth, and powerful men will stop at nothing to silence those who speak the truth"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Rastrelli, Tom, 1974-; Catholic Church; Catholic Church; Catholic ex-priests; Gay clergy; Sexual abuse victims; Gay clergy.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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