Contents:
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- ‘GAY’ PRITS: THE TTH THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
”)The show’s treatment of bishops is perhaps where gets the clost to a relig crique of some is only one exchange the show relatg to homosexualy, which Ted, aaid of offendg a gay televisn producer, stammers out awkward praise for the “whole rough and tumble of homosexual activy, ” and proces to nervoly equate the church’s stance on the matter to the old belief that the earth was flat. Fah Journeys of a Gay Prit. In 1980s Ameri, g out as gay as a father and hband was a signifint journey for anyone to make.
Comg out as gay as a prit guaranteed immersn to ntroversy, ntradictn, and challenge. Acts of Fivens: Fah Journeys of a Gay Prit is a betiful work remdg aga that there is no future whout fivens; there is no fah whout love. Acts of Fivens: Fah Journeys of Gay Prit is spiratnal tobgraphy at s bt.
In Acts of Fivens: Fah Journeys of Gay Prit, Canon Ted Karpf promis to “turn the dross of my life to gold, ” and keeps that promise wh vulnerabily, sight, and passn for himself and others. Time and aga, Ted expos the challeng of workg domtilly and ternatnally as an openly gay man and a prit workg a mistry that all the church had not e to embrace, unrstand or believe that even had a place the church pecially, to ’s shame, the Church Mother Ai. And, while the story is told the ntext of the AIDS epimic and g to terms wh beg gay, is ultimately a story of the triumph of fahfulns, fivens and grace the face of shame, stigma and discrimatn.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
He was betrayed by those pledged to love him om his vic parents, to the gay lover he left his marriage for, to the close iend who cheated him out of most of his life’s savgs, and yet, he triumphed.
Acts of Fivens: Fah Journeys of Gay Prit, overflows wh the joy that mak Easter a verb. As a Gay prit’s tale, Father Ted celebrat his llg and his ordatn.
Especially wh Ted’s potent mix of HIV/AIDS activist, gay and divorcee.
‘GAY’ PRITS: THE TTH THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
When I fished readg Acts of Fivens: Fah Journeys of a Gay Prit, I realized I had jt experienced the book-length versn of Nietzsche’s aphorism, “only out of chaos a star is born. He also shar the anguish of g out as a gay prit alongsi many of his parishners the nservative Dallas Dce of the time.
Weavg through his stori of love and loss, he negotiat the waters of genr inty om his earlit years to the prent as a gay man a heteronormative world. This book ntas the paful, urageo and even funny stori of Karpf’s unual and challengg life: stori of a fahful man longg for God; of a gay prit immersed the sorrow and tragedy of HIV/AIDS mistry and policy, even as he himself was rejected by his Church; of the stggl of renciliatn after a btal childhood; of the challeng of divorced parentg and the botted joy of grand-parentg; and of the anguish and lights of an open heart. A gay man, often ‘a prophet whout honor’ (Mark 6:4) his own Church, Ted is an veterate speaker of tth, a champn for the wound and those whout armor or weapons.
Father Karpf's movg memoir, Articl of Fah: a prit’s tale, is of great historil signifince for he documents wh ndor the spirual and pastoral journey of a gay prit The Epispal Church durg the s which this Church first me to acknowledge the mistry and service of LGBTQ men and women. From his begngs Texas as a closeted young man wh a sire to serve God, to his votn as an openly gay Epispal prit, to his later llg as a public health worker South Ai and Europe, his story is one of fahful leave-takg, and learng to live to the unknown. Not one uttered the word “gay.