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In Defense of Married Priesthood A Sociotheological Investigation of Catholic Clerical Celibacy
This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical, and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it contends that married priesthood has always existed in some form in the Catholic Church and that mandatory universal celibacy is the product of cultural and sociological contingencies, rather than sound doctrine. With attention to a range of problems associated with priestly celibacy, including sexual abuse, clerical shortages, loneliness, and spiritual sloth, In Defense of Married Priesthood argues that the Roman Catholic Church should permit marriage to the priesthood in order to respond to the challenges of our age. Presenting a sociologically informed alternative to the popular theological perspectives on clerical celibacy, this book defends the notion of the married priesthood as legitimate means of living the vocation of Catholic priesthood—one which is eminently fitting for the contemporary world. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, theology, and sociology. (Link to publisher website:https://www.routledge.com/In-Defense-of-Married-Priesthood-A-Sociotheological-Investigation-of-Catholic/Ballano/p/book/9781032558875)
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Celibacy, Seminary Formation, and Catholic Clerical Sexual Abuse Exploring Sociological Connections and Alternative Clerical Training
Does the current celibate, semi-monastic, and all-male seminary formation contribute to the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church? Applying sociological theories on socialization, total institutions, and social resistance as the primary conceptual framework, and drawing on secondary literature, media reports, the author’s experience, interviews, and Church documents, this book argues that the Catholic Church’s institution of the celibate seminary formation as the only mode of clerical training for Catholic priests has resulted in negative unintended consequences to human formation such as the suspension of normal human socialization in society, psychosexual immaturity, and weak social control against clerical sexual abuse. The author thus contends that celibate training, while suitable for those who do live in religious or monastic communities, is inappropriate for those who are obliged to live alone and work in parishes. As such, an alternative model for diocesan clerical formation is advanced. A fresh look at the aptness – and effects – of celibate formation for diocesan clergy, this volume is the first to relate the persistence of Catholic clerical sexual abuse to celibate seminary formation, exploring the structural links between the two using sociological arguments and proposing an apprenticeship-based model of formation, which has numerous advantages as a form of clerical training. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, sociology and theology, as well as those involved with seminary formation.
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Understanding Digital Literacy, Digital Competence, and Pedagogical Digital Competence: Implementing Online Teaching for Filipino Tertiary Educators During COVID-19
This chapter aims to trace and clarify the meaning of digital literacy (DL), digital competence (DC), and pedagogical digital competence (PDC) in the global literature, as well as their relevance to the Filipino tertiary education teachers’ PDC during the current COVID-19 pandemic that suspended face-to-face classes in favor of flexible, blended, and online teaching as mandated by the Philippines’ Commission on Higher Education (CHED). It also examines the major obstacles that hinder the development of the Filipino teachers’ PDC to be able to implement the CHED’s long-distance learning requirement as part of its recommended flexible learning to minimize COVID-19 infection. Using a systematic literature review as the primary method and peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, and books as sources of textual data, it argues that responding adequately to the CHED’s teaching mandate during the pandemic requires addressing the problems of lack of logistical support for teachers and students, such as weak and unstable Internet connection and lack of access to digital devices and educational technologies. It also needs to strengthen institutional support for information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in colleges and universities and teachers’ ICT training to enhance their PDC and attitude toward online and long-distance learning. This chapter recommends that the Philippine government through the CHED must encourage more studies to understand fully the implementation barriers to improve the Filipino tertiary educators’ PDC during the current COVID-19.
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Catholic Social Teaching, Human Dignity, and the Common Good Exploring the Major Factors Affecting Big Pharma’s Corporate Moral Responsibility During COVID-19
This article explores the major factors that negatively affect the corporate moral responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry to promote human dignity and the common good during COVID-19 applying the ethical lens of Catholic social teaching and structural analysis of sociology. Utilizing textual data from published peer-reviewed articles, books, and media and church documents, it argues that the financialization of Big Pharma and the weakening of state regulation due to conflict of interests and unethical campaign contributions by the pharmaceutical industry to American legislators have resulted in corporate moral irresponsibility and the weakening of state regulation against profiteering in the sale of anti-COVID medicines and vaccines that can harm human dignity and the common good. It provides some recommendations on how to strengthen the state and non-state regulatory systems to protect human dignity and the common good during COVID-19.
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In Defense of Married Priesthood: A Sociotheological Investigation of Catholic Clerical Celibacy
This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical, and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it contends that married priesthood has always existed in some form in the Catholic Church and that mandatory universal celibacy is the product of cultural and sociological contingencies, rather than sound doctrine. With attention to a range of problems associated with priestly celibacy, including sexual abuse, clerical shortages, loneliness, and spiritual sloth, In Defense of Married Priesthood argues that the Roman Catholic Church should permit marriage to the priesthood in order to respond to the challenges of our age. Presenting a sociologically informed alternative to the popular theological perspectives on clerical celibacy, this book defends the notion of the married priesthood as legitimate means of living the vocation of Catholic priesthood—one which is eminently fitting for the contemporary world. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, theology, and sociology. URL:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/b23369/defense-married-priesthood-vivencio-ballano
Credit: Vivencio O. Ballano
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In Defense of Married Priesthood: A Sociotheological Investigation of Catholic Clerical Celibacy
This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical, and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it contends that married priesthood has always existed in some form in the Catholic Church and that mandatory universal celibacy is the product of cultural and sociological contingencies, rather than sound doctrine. With attention to a range of problems associated with priestly celibacy, including sexual abuse, clerical shortages, loneliness, and spiritual sloth, In Defense of Married Priesthood argues that the Roman Catholic Church should permit marriage to the priesthood in order to respond to the challenges of our age. Presenting a sociologically informed alternative to the popular theological perspectives on clerical celibacy, this book defends the notion of the married priesthood as legitimate means of living the vocation of Catholic priesthood—one which is eminently fitting for the contemporary world. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, theology, and sociology. URL:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/b23369/defense-married-priesthood-vivencio-ballano
Credit: Vivencio O. Ballano
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In Defense of Married Priesthood: A Sociotheological Investigation of Catholic Clerical Celibacy
This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it contends that married priesthood has always existed in some form in the Catholic Church and that mandatory universal celibacy is the product of cultural and sociological contingencies, rather than sound doctrine. With attention to a range of problems associated with priestly celibacy, including sexual abuse, clerical shortages, loneliness, and spiritual sloth, In Defense of Married Priesthood argues that the Roman Catholic Church should permit marriage to the priesthood in order to respond to the challenges of our age. Presenting a sociologically informed alternative to the popular theological perspectives on clerical celibacy, this book defends the notion of the married priesthood as legitimate means of living the vocation of Catholic priesthood – one which is eminently fitting for the contemporary world. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of religion, theology and sociology.
Credit: Vivencio O. Ballano
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A Sociotheological Approach to Catholic Social Teaching: The Role of Religion in Moral Responsibility During COVID-19 1st ed. 2022 Edition
This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest. It uses the sociotheological approach that combines the moral principles of CST and the holistic analysis of modern sociology and also utilizes the secondary literature as the main source of textual data. Specifically, it investigates the corporate moral irresponsibility and some unethical business practices of Big Pharma in the sale and distribution of its anti-COVID vaccines and medicines, the injustice in the inequitable global vaccine distribution, the weakening of the United States Congress’s legislative regulation against the pharmaceutical industry’s overpricing and profiteering, the inadequacy of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) law enforcement system against corruption, and the lack of social monitoring in the current public health surveillance system to safeguard the public good from corporate fraud and white-collar crime. This book highlights the contribution of sociology in providing the empirical foundation of CST’s moral analysis and in crafting appropriate Catholic social action during the pandemic. It is hoped that through this book, secular scholars, social scientists, religious leaders, moral theologians, religious educators, and Catholic lay leaders would be more appreciative of the sociotheological approach to understanding religion and COVID-19. “This book brings into dialogue two bodies of literature: documents of Catholic social teaching, and modern sociology and its core thinkers and texts...The author does especially well to describe how taking ‘the sociotheological turn’...will benefit the credibility and dissemination of Catholic social thought.” - Rev. Fr. Thomas Massaro, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California.
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Corporate Moral Responsibility, Distributive Justice, the Common Good, and Catholic Social Teaching: The Case of Gilead Sciences and Remdesivir
Applying the moral principles of Catholic social teaching’s (CST) on capitalism, distributive justice, private ownership, the common good, and the role of the state in the economy as the overall theoretical framework and utilizing secondary data, media reports, and scientific literature, this article explores the corporate moral responsibility of the top drug makers in the ownership and pricing of their essential medicines and COVID-19 vaccines. Specifically, it presents the case of the Gilead Sciences’ business strategies and overpricing of Remdesivir drug to illustrate how predatory capitalism undermines the moral responsibility of drug makers and CST’s moral principle on the common good in today’s pandemic. Distributive justice requires that the publicly funded and developed medicines and vaccines should be priced and distributed fairly to promote the common good and prevent the public from “paying twice” for these essential medicines. Given the public character of these medicines and the demands of social justice, the price of Remdesivir and other essential medicines of Gilead Sciences and Big Pharma for COVID-19 could have been lower than what was officially announced. Ultimately, these medicines could have been made global public health goods in accordance with CST’s doctrines on distributive justice, the common good, and the social dimension of private ownership.
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The Religious and Cultural Aspects of Resilience in Disasters: The Case of Typhoon Ketsana Victims in the Philippines
Applying sociological and social science insights, this chapter explains the religious and cultural aspects of resilience in disasters and contends that an intense spirituality and faith in the divine can be a crucial tool for disaster victims to bounce back after major natural disasters. It investigates the different interpretations, issues, and major perspectives of the concept of resilience in disaster research. It also explains the role of culture and religion in people’s capacity to deal and cope with natural disasters as well as presents a case study to illustrate the crucial role of strong religious belief as a coping mechanism of survivors to overcome the challenges of natural calamities. The study showed how a group of Christian Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) victims in 2009 creatively used their strong religious faith and belief in God as coping mechanisms to overcome the deadly flood and the subsequent inhuman relocation and return to normal life. It argues that resilience during calamities can best be assessed in individual level with religious faith acting as a potent for resilience tool in deeply religious but disaster-prone countries such as the Philippines.
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