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Vivencio Ballano
Pope Francis appears to be fully welcoming the LGBTQI community in the Catholic Church in his media interviews and writings. However, a closer sociological analysis would reveal that he remains…
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This book details my spiritual conversion and experience of God's call in my life as a Catholic Christian and sociologist. It narrates how my accidental reading of the Bible had…
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This book sociologically argues that the nonbinary sexuality and gender of the LGBTQI are not recent inventions of gay rights movements and activism that constitute an ideology. Homosexuality and gender…
This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis's church reform project known as the Synod on Synodality.
This book affirms the human dignity of the members of the LGBTQI as Children of God who should be fully accepted in the Catholic Church. It sociologically analyzes how institutional…
Vivencio O. Ballano
Applying sociological theories, this book argues that the Catholic Church's adoption of mandatory clerical celibacy has resulted in various negative consequences, including weak social control against clerical sexual abuse, and…
This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the…
Examining the negative impact of celibacy on the Roman Catholic priesthood, this book offers a sociological analysis of the factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy and argues for the…
This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that actualize the post-disaster recovery goals of the country’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010…
This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying…
This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence…
