Confessions of a Gay Married Priest

2013-01-23

Author : Maurice Monette
Release : 2013-01-23
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Download or read book Confessions of a Gay Married Priest written by Maurice Monette. This book was released on 2013-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Roman Catholic priest struggles to remain committed to his vows, live authentically as a gay person and find intimacy. His social activism throws him into doubt about dogma and, after 30 years of church leadership, inspires a leap beyond the bounds of conventional religion and into the passionate embrace of a bigger God. This deeply personal story, perhaps a modern-day cross between The Prophet and The Thornbirds, invites readers - spiritual seekers as well as those alienated from religion - into a sacred space to explore their own journeys and make sense of the human longing to trust in something beyond the self.

Confessions of a Gay Priest

2020-04-01 Religion

Author : Tom Rastrelli
Release : 2020-04-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Confessions of a Gay Priest written by Tom Rastrelli. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals. Confessions of a Gay Priest divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy and lays bare the “formation” system that perpetuates the cycle of abuse and cover-up that continues today. Under the guidance of a charismatic college campus minister, Rastrelli sought to reconcile his homosexuality and childhood sexual abuse. When he felt called to the priesthood, Rastrelli began the process of “priestly discernment.” Priests welcomed him into a confusing clerical culture where public displays of piety, celibacy, and homophobia masked a closeted underworld in which elder priests preyed upon young recruits. From there he ventured deeper into the seminary system seeking healing, hoping to help others, and striving not to live a double life. Trained to treat sexuality like an addiction, he and his brother seminarians lived in a world of cliques, competition, self-loathing, alcohol, hidden crushes, and closeted sex. Ultimately, the “formation” intended to make Rastrelli a compliant priest helped to liberate him.

Since My Last Confession

2012-07 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Scott Pomfret
Release : 2012-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Since My Last Confession written by Scott Pomfret. This book was released on 2012-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Pomfret serves as a lector at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston. He also writes gay porn. His boyfriend is a flaming atheist, and his boyfriend's Protestant grandmother considers Catholicism a sin worse than sodomy. From Pentecost to Pride, from the books of the Bible to the articles of the Advocate, Pomfret's wry, hysterically funny memoir maps with matchless humor the full spectrum of the gay Catholic experience.

Kairos, Confessions of a Gay Priest

1987 Religion

Author : Zalmon O. Sherwood
Release : 1987
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Kairos, Confessions of a Gay Priest written by Zalmon O. Sherwood. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

2014-09-10 Literary Criticism

Author : Linda C. Dowling
Release : 2014-09-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford written by Linda C. Dowling. This book was released on 2014-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature "Dowling's study is an exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis of the way Greek studies operated as a 'homosexual code' during the great age of English university reform.... Beautifully written and argued with subtlety, the book is indispensable for students of Victorian literature, culture, gender studies, and the nature of social change."—Choice "Hellenism and Homosexuality... presents a detailed and knowledgeable... account of such factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian dons as Jowett and Pater and the evolving evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also enhanced by [an] analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato's Republic."—Lambda Book Report

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