Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir
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Authors: Scott Pomfret
Tags: #Gay & Lesbian, #Social Science, #Catholic Gay Men, #Boston, #Religious Aspects, #Personal Memoirs, #General, #Gay Studies, #Homosexuality, #Religious Life, #Massachusetts, #Biography & Autobiography, #Catholic Church, #Biography
Copyright © 2008, 2011 by Scott Pomfret
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ISBN: 978-1-61145-500-7
Contents
Make Me Believe That You Believe
Beheadings, Burnings, and Other Children’s Literature
What I Learned about Archbishop Sean on My Summer Vacation
Love Letters to the Archbishop
VI. Land(s) of the Misfit Tops
Womenpriests: Invasion of the Compound Nouns
Give Us This Day Our Daily YouTube
GLBT Spirituality Redux: The Bishop’s Blessing
Captain Handsome Is My Copilot
The Vatican Paperwork-Reduction Program
A Short History of Excommunication
Walking the Excommunication Walk
Three Easy Steps to Excommunication
A Lovely Day for an Excommunication
XI. Living on the Liturgical Edge
Marauding Lesbians Snatch Boston’s Children News Flash
How Great the God That Made an Asshole Like You
That Flushing Sound Is Charity Going Straight down the Drain
XIII. The Super Colon and the Scandal of Faith
The Cock Crowed for the Third Time
Simple Words with a Dozen Syllables
XIV. Confessions of a Crossooer
At the Feet of My Forebears: A Short History of Gay Catholics
Need a Catholic Priest? Ask the Lesbian Jew
XVI. Acts of the (Gay) apostles
What Do
You
Do to Get in the Mood?
Pomfret’s Lives of the Well-intentioned, Reasonably Courageous, Everyday Clerics
Amazing Grace and Leftover Miracles
XVII. I See Broken People Everywhere
Now and at. the Hour of Our Death
False Starts and Fake Boobs: A Prayer
