The Silence of Sodom
Subtitle: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780226410432
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Social Science; Religion - Catholicism; Sociology; Christian Life - Social Issues; Christianity - Catholic; Religion / Catholicism; Gay Studies
First sentence: IMAGINE THIS. Overnight, God changes the hearts of a majority of officials in the Vatican.
Description: The past decade has seen homosexual scandals in the Catholic Church becoming ever more visible, and the Vatican's directives on homosexuality becoming ever more forceful, begging the question Mark Jordan tries to answer here: how can the Catholic Church be at once so homophobic and so homoerotic? His analysis is a keen and readable study of the tangled relationship between male homosexuality and modern Catholicism.--Publisher description.