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A Sexual Life, A Spiritual Life\n\nA Painful Journey to Inner Peace | Bishop Pat Buckley\n\nCatalogue Description\nIn this candid, at times raw, account of a life of turmoil, dissident Bishop Pat Buckley reveals how his battles with Rome were paralleled by an internal battle between his own sexuality and his deeply held spirituality. This volume represents a profound theological and personal manifesto from one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish religious history.\n\nSexually abused at the age of six by a trusted family friend, Pat Buckley went on to join the priesthood, eventually being consecrated as a Bishop in controversial circumstances in 1998. Throughout his life, he endured a profound internal conflict regarding his homosexuality, finally \""coming out\"" in 1999.\n\n\""The mind's road to God always begins in the sexual appetite.\"" \n\u2013 St. Bonaventure (quoted by the author)\n\nA Sexual Life, A Spiritual Life is far more than a mere \""confession.\"" Buckley uses.