A challenge to love : gay and lesbian Catholics in the church /

The author examines how gay and lesbian individuals interact with the Catholic Church.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nugent, Robert, 1937-2014 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crossroad, 1983.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements: Robert Nugent
  • Introduction: Bishop Walter F. Sullivan
  • Prejudice, religion, and homosexual people / Jeannine Gramick
  • The Christian body and homosexual maturing / James R. Zullo and James D. Whitehead
  • The homosexual condition and political responsibility / Gregory Baum
  • Homosexuality, lesbianism, and the future: the creative role of the gay community in building a more humane society / John McNeill
  • Homosexuals: a Christian pastoral response now
  • Michael D. Guinan
  • Moral methodology: a case study /Lisa Sowle Cahill
  • An ethic for same-sex relations / Margaret A. Farley
  • Point/counterpoint / Edward A. Malloy
  • The morality of homosexual marriage / Daniel Maguire
  • Lovingly lesbian: toward a feminist theology of friendship / Mary E. Hunt
  • Education: sexual and religious / Gabriel Moran
  • Three passages of maturity / James D. Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead
  • The spiritual journey of the homosexual ... and just about everybody else / Matthew Fox
  • Gay Catholics and Eucharist communion: theological parameters / Paul K. Thomas
  • Vocation discernment and the homosexual / M. Basil Pennington
  • Homosexuality and religious life / Marguerite Kropiniak
  • Priest, celibate and gay: you are not alone / Robert Nugent
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.