Richard Sipe

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Aquinas Walter Richard Sipe (born December 11, 1932 in Robbinsdale , Minnesota - † August 8, 2018 in La Jolla , California ) was an American Roman Catholic pastoral psychologist and author .

Life

After finishing school, Sipe studied at Saint John's University in Collegeville , Minnesota from 1950 to 1955 . In 1953 he made his profession as a Benedictine in St. John's Abbey . From 1955 to 1957 he attended the Collegio Sant'Anselmo in Rome , Italy , then until 1959 the Saint John's Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota; here he was ordained a priest in 1959. After that, Sipe was a monk and priest for 18 years. In 1970 he was released from his vows. He married and had a son. Sipe lived in La Jolla, California with his wife.

Both in his time as a priest and afterwards he worked as a pastoral psychologist and the author of several books. Sipe died in La Jolla in August 2018 at the age of 85.

Act

Sipe has collected and compared data on Roman Catholic priests in the United States for over 25 years . In 1990 he published for the first time results obtained from over 1500 personal statements, 500 from priests in psychotherapy, 500 from priests in workshops, discussions and interviews and 500 lay people who had sexual experiences with priests as partners or victims. Sipes estimates that 20 percent of priests have a sexual relationship with a woman, 20 percent of priests have a homosexual orientation, and half of them are sexually active. According to Sipe, the trend is increasing and he later assumed “at least 22 percent”. Sipe also said that many well-informed priests would cite numbers that were "closer to 50 percent" of the homosexual.

However, Sipe did not advocate voluntary celibacy, nor did he believe that clerical marriage would solve all of their sexual problems. In several books he gave spiritual and psychological advice on how priests could better observe celibacy, and he also lectured on this in seminaries.

Works

(Selection)

  • The Serpent and the Dove: Celibacy in Literature And Life
  • Sex, Priests & Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2000 year paper trail of sexual abuse (in collaboration with Thomas P. Doyle , Patrick J. Wall), Bonus Books, 2006, ISBN 1566252652 .
  • Living the Celibate Life: A Search for Models and Ministry
  • Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited
  • Sex, Priests and Power
  • Celibacy: A Way of Loving, Living, and Serving
  • A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy
    • German: Sexuality and Celibacy , translated by Ingrid Pross-Gill. Schöningh, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-506-78559-1 .
  • Sin Against the Innocents

Literature and media

(Selection)

  • TV documentary Sexual Identity , BBC 2005
  • TV documentary Celibacy , BBC / HBO 2004
  • Participant in ten TV documentaries about the sexual abuse scandal in the clergy, United States, France and United Kingdom during 2003/2004
  • Court TV, January 2002
  • CNN TV, January 2002
  • Non-Celibate Priests , Religion & Ethics PBS TV, July 2001
  • Priests With AIDS , 20/20, ABC TV, January 2001
  • St. John's Priest With AIDS , KSTP TV, January 2001
  • Sexual Abuse & St. John's Abbey , KSTP TV, November, 2000
  • Priests: A Question of Celibacy , Canada Sex TV, September 2000
  • Our Father , HBO, 1996
  • Sins of the Fathers , BBC-Everyman, September 10, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AW Richard Sipe, a Leading Voice on Clergy Sex Abuse, Dies at 85 New York Times , accessed August 10, 2018
  2. ^ Richard Sipe: Curriculum vitae ( Memento from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Richard Sipe: Biography ( Memento of December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Richard Sipe: Books
  5. ↑ a b A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy ( Memento from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ ZDF: Sooo many ?!
  7. ↑ ZDF: Sooo many ?!
  8. ^ Richard Sipe: Books
  9. ^ Richard Sipe: The Serpent and the Dove
  10. ^ Richard Sipe: Books
  11. ^ Richard Sipe: Books
  12. ^ Richard Sipe: Curriculum vitae ( Memento from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sipe, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Roman Catholic pastoral psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Robbinsdale
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2018
Place of death La Jolla