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Authors: Scott Pomfret

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Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir

BOOK: Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir
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Copyright © 2008, 2011 by Scott Pomfret

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ISBN: 978-1-61145-500-7

Contents

Dramatis Personae

Author’s Note

Prologue

I. The Tunnel Builders

Mrs. American Gothic

No Skin, off Gram’s Ass

The Naughty Altar Boy

II. Follow the Smudges

Catch the Devil by His Tail

Marking Territory

Doing My Religious Business

Deals with God and Boyfriend

III. A Church to be Proud Of

Channeling James Earl Jones

Three Hale Marys

Thanks Be to the Pedophiles

Vatican to the Rescue

IV. Love J2P2

Happy Birthday

Calculating the Odds

The Cardinal Spellman School

The Rules

Make Me Believe That You Believe

V. Lives of the Saints

Beheadings, Burnings, and Other Children’s Literature

Martyr from the Mothballs

Stalking the Archbishop

What I Learned about Archbishop Sean on My Summer Vacation

Love Letters to the Archbishop

Advanced Thinking

God Hates Fats

VI. Land(s) of the Misfit Tops

Cruising for Catholics

Dignity

Taking Heart

Womenpriests: Invasion of the Compound Nouns

VII. God Bless Ireland

Wookie Prayers

Tabernacle Sports

Captain of the Team

Lector Boot Camp

VIII. A Habit Corse Than porn

Give Us This Day Our Daily YouTube

Picasso Paints Province-town

GLBT Spirituality Redux: The Bishop’s Blessing

Captain Handsome Is My Copilot

IX. The Godfather

How to Read Just Right

Improbable Friendship

The Godfather

The Theology of Baldness

This Is Not about You

X. Excommunications ‘R’ us

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

The Good Queer

Tuesdays with Anthony

Stealing the Sacred Heart

XII. The Empire Strikes Back

Speaking of Relics

Marauding Lesbians Snatch Boston’s Children News Flash

How Great the God That Made an Asshole Like You

Unintended Consequences

What We Look Like

That Flushing Sound Is Charity Going Straight down the Drain

XIII. The Super Colon and the Scandal of Faith

The Success of Snitchery

Less Holy

Selling Holy Rocks

The Cock Crowed for the Third Time

Dreaming Julia Roberts

Simple Words with a Dozen Syllables

XIV. Confessions of a Crossooer

Confessions of a Crossover

Once You Go Black

United Church of Vegetables

DisCouraged

Unchurching

XV. Gay Voices before Mine

The Celestial Skywriter

At the Feet of My Forebears: A Short History of Gay Catholics

Hail, Holy Queen

Milk and Cookies

Need a Catholic Priest? Ask the Lesbian Jew

Back-Room Heroes

Spiritual Flamer

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

Gay Voices

Back in the Saddle

Amazing Grace and Leftover Miracles

XVII. I See Broken People Everywhere

Gay People 1, Cardinal Sean 0

Why Catholic? (Part 1)

Now and at. the Hour of Our Death

Re-Membering

Why Catholic? (Part 2)

False Starts and Fake Boobs: A Prayer

XVIII. Last Chance for Love

Meanwhile, Back at the Shrine

Why Catholic? (Part 3)

Last Chance for Love

Why Catholic? (Part 4)

And So What?

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

 

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