Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence is a compelling indictment of Roman Catholic teachings on homosexuality and sexuality. Inspired by The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, Mark Jordan's controversial examination of homoeroticism in American Catholic culture, this groundbreaking book examines how the current crisis of clerical abuse affects and stigmatizes gay priests living in a climate of hysteria and condemnation.

Donald Boisvert (Author), Robert Goss (Author)

• 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