The Pope Is Not Gay! - Softcover

Quattrocchi, Angelo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844674746 ISBN 13: 9781844674749

Publisher: Verso, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Not your average Pope-bashing ... the book is deeply offensive --Catholic Herald

Fantastic --National Secular Society

Life has changed. The world has changed. But Angelo remains the same, a dissident who resists the depredations of an increasingly marketized culture. --Tariq Ali

About the Author:

Anarchist and poet, ANGELO QUATTROCCHI (1945 2009) reported from London, Paris and the US for Italian newspapers in the 1960s and 1970s and subsequently worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC, Channel 4, and Italian television. His books include The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968, What Happened, Why It Happened with Tom Nairn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844674746
• ISBN 13: 9781844674749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192