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Papal sin : structures of deceit.
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ISBN: 0385494106 9780385494106 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York - London - Toronto - Sydney - Auckland Doubleday

The silence of Sodom : homosexuality in modern Catholicism
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ISBN: 0226410412 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. London University of Chicago Press

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The Silence of Sodom is devoted, first, to teasing out the Church's complex bureaucratic language about sexual morality. Rather than trying to point out that official Catholic documents are simply wrong in their discussions and directives regarding homosexuality, Jordan examines the rhetorical devices used by the Church throughout its history to actively produce silence around the topic of male homoeroticism. Arguing that we cannot find the Church's knowledge of homosexuality in its documents, Jordan looks to the unspoken but widely known features of clerical culture to illuminate the striking analogies between clerical institutions and contemporary gay culture, particularly in the mechanisms of discipline, the training of seminarians, and the ambiguities of liturgical celebration. [publisher's description]

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