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Advance Praise for Celibate

Maria Giura’s Celibate is an impassioned portrait of a self in utter struggle over, and ambivalence about God, family, sex, and love. Giura exquisitely draws the reader into the turbulence that was her life but also compels the reader to believe that now, finally, she is on the right path, that now she has reached her truth and peace. An exhilarating page turner.

— Kathleen McCormick, author of Dodging Satan

Deeply human and finely wrought, Celibate is Giura’s strikingly honest examination of her battle to hang onto her faith in the midst of trying to understand—and free herself from—her complex relationship with a Catholic priest.

— Michael Steinberg, author of Still Pitching:

A Memoir

A beautifully rendered and heartfelt look at the place that contemporary women have in the Roman Catholic Church

and one brave woman’s struggle to reconcile her faith in this context.

— Leslie Heywood, author of Pretty Good for a Girl

Celibate tells a different kind of vocation story. Vivid and passionate, it speaks to both the afflictions and the victory that can come from discerning and following God’s voice. A gripping memoir from first to last page.

— Jana M. Bennett, author of Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life

In Celibate, priest, woman, and Church are tangled together in a romantic, forbidden web, and the boundaries between Church and society-at-large blur to the point of clear transparency. A poignant must read.

— Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute