Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence Book

About the Editors

Contributors

Introduction

PART I: SPEAKING IN NEW AND DIFFERENT TONGUES

Chapter 1. Celibate Men, Ambivalent Saints, and Games of Desire (Donald L. Boisvert)

Chapter 2. Naming the Mechanisms of Self-Deception: A Call to Liberation for Gay Roman Catholic Clergy (David M. Mellott)

Chapter 3. Speaking Loud or Shutting Up: The Homosexual-Type Problem (Edward J. Ingebretsen)

Chapter 4. Silencing Sodom (Chuck Colbert)

Chapter 5. Anglican Bodies: The Gift of Heretical Liminality and the Risk of Relaxed Vigilance (Jay Emerson Johnson)

PART II: ECCLESIAL MISOGYNY

Chapter 6. Duplicity Writ Large (Mary E. Hunt)

Chapter 7. Always a Bride, Never a Groom (Robert E. Goss)

Chapter 8. Pandora s Gauntlet: Curiosity Enough to Care and Hope Enough to Question (Marie Cartier)

Chapter 9. A Welcome Voice Breaks the Silence in an Exclusively Male Clerical Tradition (Lorine M. Getz)

Chapter 10. Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? (Mary Ann Tolbert)

PART III: POWER GAMES AND CALLING NAMES

Chapter 11. Breaking the Silence in Public: A Case Study (Michael Kelly)

Chapter 12. Those Troubling Gay Priests (Bernard Schlager)

Chapter 13. Lessons from Our Neighbors: An Appreciation and a Query to Mark Jordan (Karen Lebacqz)

Chapter 14. Neither Do I: A Meditation on Scapegoating (William Glenn)

Chapter 15. Scandal Work: Catholicism and a Crisis of Intimate Relations (Edward J. Ingebretsen)

PART IV: A RESPONSE FROM MARK JORDAN

Chapter 16. After Silence (Mark Jordan)

Index

Reference Notes Included