Catholics and Sex

(co-authored with Kate Saunders)

‘Presents cogent arguments why priests should be allowed to marry and why teaching on sexual behaviour has everything to do with pre-Christian attitudes to women and sex.’ Harriet Waugh, Literary Review

TV tie-in with Channel 4 series presented by the author and novelist Kate Saunders, examining the gap between the ideals of Catholic sexual teaching and the realities of many Catholics' lives, and the damage done to those who feel themselves to fall short of those ideals.

Published in London by Heinemann and Channel 4 in March 1992. Separate German (Goldmann Verlag) and Polish (Muza) editions. ISBN UK hardback 0-434-67246-7; UK paperback 0-7493-1031-6

“What makes it compelling reading is the authors' palpable belief in their Church and their disgust that its strong teachings should be overshadowed by the sexual equivalent of angels on pinheads”

– Irish Times

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Catholics and Sex

“What makes it compelling reading is the authors' palpable belief in their Church and their disgust that its strong teachings should be overshadowed by the sexual equivalent of angels on pinheads”