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Confessions of a gay priest : a memoir of sex, love, abuse, and scandal in the Catholic seminary /

"A sexual abuse survivor unapologetically confesses the intimate workings of the Catholic seminary, celibacy and priesthood during an era of sexual scandal and exposes how priests are "formed" to perpetuate a cycle of abuse where truth is relative, chastity is a myth, and powerful men...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rastrelli, Tom, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Part I: St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, patron saint of stonemasons, 1994-96. Audition
  • An actor prepares
  • Acting is believing
  • Freeing the natural voice
  • Genesis
  • A place at the table
  • By way of the heart
  • Confessions
  • The cloud of unknowing
  • Urgent longings
  • In praise of folly
  • The seven storey mountain
  • Part II: St. Pius X, Pope, patron saint of first communicants and pilgrims, 1996-98. The consolation of philosophy
  • A theology of liberation
  • The long loneliness
  • Part III: St. Mary, mother of God, patron saint of crusaders, needle and pin makers, and virgins, 1998-2002. Interior castle
  • The rule of life
  • Codependent no more
  • The road less traveled
  • The theology of the body: human love in the divine plan
  • Spiritual exercises
  • Letting go: the spirituality of subtraction
  • The changing face of priesthood
  • The wild man's journey
  • Gaudium et spes
  • Part IV: St. Jude, the apostle, patron saint of lost causes, 2002-3. The holy longing
  • The first five years of priesthood
  • The wounded healer
  • Quickening the fire in our midst
  • Part V: Resurrection, 2003-4. Sacred silence
  • Homosexuality in the Church
  • Boys like us
  • Becoming a man
  • Now that i'm out, what do I do?
  • The end of the affair
  • Part VI: Beautiful child, 2019. Epilogue: we are the champions.