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Author Rastrelli, Tom, 1974- author.

Title Confessions of a gay priest : a memoir of sex, love, abuse, and scandal in the Catholic seminary / Tom Rastrelli
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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 will stop at nothing to silence those who speak the truth"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2020)
Subject Rastrelli, Tom, 1974-
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior -- United States
Catholic Church
Catholic ex-priests -- United States -- Biography
Gay clergy -- United States -- Biography
Sexual abuse victims -- United States -- Biography
RELIGION -- General.
Catholic ex-priests
Clergy
Clergy -- Sexual behavior
Gay clergy
Sexual abuse victims
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019047801
ISBN 1609387104
9781609387105