Here are extracts from pages 244 and 245 of the book 'Women, Celibacy and the Church: Towards a Theology of the Single Life, Annemarie S. Kidder, New York: Crossroads Publishing Company, 2003 ( Read more... )

I googled 'catholics single life vocation' and some people say there is and others say there is not. Lifelong singleness as a lay person is rarely a positive choice, but a state in which people remain by circumstances. If a person chooses to stay single, or get married, for the wrong reasons - such as out of selfishness - do they have a vocation ( Read more... )