The Pope Is Not Gay!
The Pope is Not Gay! is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopic examination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI. In his inimitable style, Angelo Quattrocchi traces the evolution of Joseph Ratzinger’s life, beginning with the pope’s childhood in Nazi Germany, his membership of the Hitler youth in Bavaria and his conscription into the German anti-aircraft corps. His has been a startling career, a story that helps explain his development as a reactionary theologian and culminates in his carefully planned election to the papacy in 2005. Quattrocchi contrasts the Pope’s doctrinal rigidity on issues such as birth control, abortion, and homosexuality to his extravagant attire and his controversial relationship with his private secretary, Cardinal Georg Gänswein. Rigidity on all fronts.
Illustrated throughout and including Ratzinger’s key writings on homosexuality as an appendix, The Pope is Not Gay! sheds new light on the Catholic Church’s sustained interference in contemporary politics and society and the hypocrisy of its pontiffs past and present.
Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781844674749
October 2010
$16.95 / £8.99
Reviews
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[A] witty polemic.
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[A]n entertaining and provoking pamphlet.
Blog
Did Pope Benedict really call gay marriage a "threat to the future of humanity"?
Peter Montgomery, writing for Religious Dispatches, digs deeper on the current furore over the Pope's recent speech to the diplomatic corps. Andrew Brown, of the Guardian, objected to Reuters reporting the head of the Catholic Church stating
that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined 'the future of humanity itself'.
The Pope is Not Gay
Thanks to Andrew Sullivan, the Atlantic's "Daily Dish" blogger, for bringing our attention to this gem, titled in Sullivan's blog after the Verso book, The Pope is Not Gay:
Verso Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Express
The Times Literary Supplement asked sixty-five writers about their books of the year ...
Paul Griffiths:
Not wearily, but freshly and brightly, Alain Badiou takes up from Nietzsche, Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe the philosophers' debate with the old magician of Bayreuth in his Five Lessons on Wagner (Verso). Badiou's is an un-Wagnerian Wagner, a composer of ambiguities and silences, of suffering and (his own word) heartbreak a composer still with lessons for the music of today.
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