'...if we in the contemporary Church have a need now, one might say that it is to recover the significance of authentic celibacy. Against the heritage of Protestant ideals of the family, against post- and sub-Freudian assumptions about the necessity of a healthy sex life for psychological wholeness, against the late modern capitalist consumerization of sexuality, a renewed understanding of the theological significance of celibacy and vowed singleness is surely essential to the Church's truthful witness.'
Robert Song, Covenant and Calling, p.22.
