Description Throughout his remarkable life, Richard Sipe has followed one simple yet demanding dictum: Tell the truth.
From priesthood to layman, to husband, to father, his thoughts deepen one\'s appreciation for the complexities of life, for the need and role of personal therapy, for the range of sexual feelings that help humanize us, including, finally, his reflections on our final.
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American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Section Editor: On the Arts Anyone reading Richard Sipe\'s I Confess will be delighted, informed, and uplifted by his reflections and his poetry.
And he confronts the religious teachings of his youth, taking readers on a searing quest for identity - through bondage, struggle, liberation, and finally to the hard-earned peace that can only come with knowledge of the self.-Michael Rezendes, Boston Globe I Confess is..."A worthy example of applied self-reflection, that desire to find the words for complicated internal contentions and transformations, with some startling imagery that lingers long after the book is closed ..."-Judith Vida-Spence, M.
He explores the cost of rebellion, and the joy of love and personal awakening.
With an open heart and a keen intellect, he reveals the isolation and loneliness that come with priestly celibacy and a life of contemplation.
In poems of love, loss, grief and renewal, Sipe assesses his life and his struggle with Catholicism.
But in "I Confess" Sipe takes an unexpected turn, yielding to an inner muse to find a separate truth that is at once deeply personal and profoundly universal.
And he is an oracular presence in "Spotlight," the hit movie about the Globe\'s groundbreaking work.
His research guided the Boston Globe Spotlight Team in its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
Today, Sipe is best known for his work with clergy who molest children.
He has done so as a priest, a mental health clinician, and a writer exploring the trials of celibacy and the tragedy of child sexual abuse.
Description Throughout his remarkable life, Richard Sipe has followed one simple yet demanding dictum: Tell the truth
