Dr. Vivencio O. Ballano is the Chairperson of the Master of Arts in Sociology, Graduate Studies Program, and Associate Professor 5 at the Department of Sociology, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Manila. He received his master’s (theology) and doctoral (sociology) degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University. He has published four Scopus-indexed books under the imprint Springer Nature. His fifth book entitled In Defense of Married Priesthood was published by Routledge in 2023. Dr. Ballano has also published several Scopus-indexed journal articles on the sociology of law, religion, media piracy, postdisaster management, digital education, and Catholic social teaching. He underwent ten years of diocesan and religious seminary training before becoming a sociologist.

• 1. Introduction 2. Shifting Method in Catholic Clerical Training and Human Formation Against Sexual Abuse 3. Celibate Seminary Formation, Total Institution, and Clerical Sexual Abuse 4. Gender and Sexuality Formation in the Seminary and Clerical Sexual Abuse 5. Celibate Clerical Formation, Social Resistance, and Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church 6. Heterosexual Clerical Sexual Abuse and Seminary Formation 7. Homosexual Clerical Sexual Abuse and Seminary Formation 8. Child Clerical Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, and Seminary Formation 9. Exploring Alternative Clerical Training and Married Priesthood in Current Age

‘This book is very timely! After three decades of endless stories about clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and almost invariably useless gestures to deal with it, the time is now for much more far-reaching structural reforms, including those proposed by this author.’ - A.A.J. DeVille, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Saint Francis, USA