Download or read book Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives written by Frederick S. Roden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Europe to America, it interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality.