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The Experience of a Pastoral Advocate and Implications for the Church
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2014
More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church
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and Keywords This chapter presents a critique-based on the chapter's author's own experiences as a university teacher, parish minister, and pastoral advocate-of the deleterious effects of what he calls "the pervasive climate of fear" and reactivity that surrounds even modest attempts at open conversation among Catholics about sexual diversity and the church. It suggest that this climate of fear is debilitating and dangerous, especially within a faith community charged by Jesus to "be not
doi:10.5422/fordham/9780823256570.003.0009
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