Passing on the Rites of Passage: Girls' Initiation Rites in the Context of an Urban Roman Catholic Community on the Zambian Copperbelt Book

Telling Truths in Church is a compilation of lectures given by the author, a gay Catholic professor, at Boston University about the Catholic priest pedophile scandal, as well as about gay marriage and other issues of the theology of sexuality.

I was originally assigned this text in my seminary course on Sexuality in the Christian Body, which examined (predominantly, but not solely) the issues of homosexuality within the church and the lack of discussion surrounding those issues. I read this book a few years later after it was assigned and found myself mostly disappointed with the author's stance (not because I agreed or disagreed with it, but because I felt that it was lacking in general). My general opinion of this book is that I have read many more valuable and persuasive arguments in favor of a broader look at homosexuality as being understood in a normative and charitable way.

I did feel, at times, that the author was way above my head in terms of conceptual theological language, so perhaps my understanding of the book's content and message is lacking.