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Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place).

In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching.

Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. The only child of two atheist academics, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the day she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, who happened also to be Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the “zoo animals,” she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to gay Catholics: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject the truth of your sexuality. Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith is the fruit of Tushnet’s searching: what she learned in studying Christian history and theology and her articulation of how gay Catholics can pour their love and need for connection into friendships, community, service, and artistic creation.

Features & Benefits

    • Gay and Catholic is the first book written from the perspective of an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic.
    • Tushnet has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Atlantic. She is a columnist for the Weekly Standard, Commonweal, and First Things and blogs at Patheos.
    • Gay and Catholic casts a vision for gay Catholics seeking to live faithfully to Church teaching.
SKU/ISBN: 9781594715426 Author: Eve Tushnet Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
1695 1525

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