description: The hilarious romp of a logical mind trying to grow up Catholic in Philadelphia's Little Italy during World War II. A quasi-autobiographical account of the peripubertal life of a boy who would grow up to be a skeptical philosopher and professional musician. Did someone really set a pornographic stained-glass panel in a window of a Philadelphia Catholic church? Or did a preadolescent surge of hormones merely make it seem so? Can you really get syphilis off a toilet seat? How can a really good Catholic boy be thinking of sex all the time, yet have as his personal hero that zany third member of the Trinity -- the Holy Ghost? Can a child who is both brilliant and artistically gifted grow up Catholic -- and stay Catholic all the way?
language: English
title: The Altar Boy Chronicles
titlecomplete: The Altar Boy Chronicles
ratings_count: 1
publisher: American Atheist Press