Life in Paradox: The Story of a Gay Catholic Priest
by Paul Edward Murray
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Author: Paul Edward MurrayEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-07-25
ISBN: 1846941121
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: O Books
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Book Review: Quite a book
Summary: 5 Stars
First the confession. Twenty-eight years ago, Paul received me into the Roman Catholic Church and, although we've not kept in touch very well since I left Washington in 1984, the Paul I knew then comes alive in this incredibly honest book. In the years I knew him, the paradox of being gay and Roman Catholic was not so painful as it is today after the long papacy of John Paul II.
What I find most authentic is the way Paul tries mightily, for so long, to hold together those two central aspects of his being. Carl Jung observed that it is in holding the tension of the opposites we encounter in life that the soul conceives a third, not previously imagined possibility. This takes a great deal of courage, but it is the way we grow.
Paul's book portrays wonderfully his process of trying to hold those opposites together in all their awful tension and the book itself is evidence of a third thing now emerging, in which Paul -- no matter what the hierarchy does in response to his memoir -- realizes and claims himself fully as both gay and Catholic.
Summary of Life in Paradox: The Story of a Gay Catholic Priest
No issue divides the Christian community more than homosexuality. Father Paul Murray's story provides an intimate look at life on both sides of the liberal/conservative divide that crosses through church and society alike. His personal odyssey and eventual self-acceptance of his homosexuality chart a radical transformation in his understandings of God, church, and society.Religious Books
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