Queer And Catholic

by Healey, Trebor

• ISBN13: 9781560237136
• ISBN10: 1560237139
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-06-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised Catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial Catholic nature, or even our flight from and continued struggle with the "the Church of Rome." Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile, or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents.

Table of Contents

Trebor's Preface	p. xiii
Amie's Preface	p. xvii
Apostates
The Fifteenth Station	p. 3
Objective Disorder	p. 13
Excerpts from The End of the World Book	p. 15
Two Poems: "Noose" and "Tattoo"	p. 23
The Erotic Education of Elmer Rosewater	p. 27
Heretics
Jesus Is My Father	p. 39
I Was Always a Marian Heretic	p. 49
Binding the God	p. 61
Hail Mary	p. 73
Two Poems: "Just Like Jesus" and "Bastard"	p. 77
"Fragments from a Catholic School Girl's Memory"	p. 81
The Tree and the Cross	p. 95
Presion Bajo Gracia	p. 105
Priests
Father Tongue	p. 117
Priests	p. 129
Chain of Fools	p. 133
Lesbian Catechism: Samplings from a Life	p. 143
Fully Human, Fully Alive	p. 153
Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa	p. 159
Nuns
Don't Sing: Growing Up Lesbian in Catholic School	p. 165
Hive	p. 175
A Nun Story	p. 179
My Heart, Also Sacred	p. 185
Vague Recollections	p. 191
Good Habits to Hang Onto	p. 197
Saints
Ritual, Wonder, and Miracles	p. 213
Queer Thoughts on Catholic Bodies	p. 223
Series of One	p. 231
Holy Scenes	p. 239
Dance or Die	p. 243
Reclaiming the Power of Incarnation: When God's Body Is Catholic & Queer (with a cunt!)	p. 249
Angels
Sacramentals	p. 265
He Wore a Yellow Tulip excerpted from the novel Now Is the Hour	p. 269
Once Upon a Cross	p. 297
The Prisoners	p. 303
Easter Sunday, St. Francis Xavier	p. 313
A Cry for Vengeance	p. 327
Excerpts from the Journal of a Canonical Bastard	p. 335
About the Editors	p. 341
Contributors	p. 343
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