The Pope Is Not Gay!

The Pope is Not Gay! is an irreverent history of homophobicand sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopicexamination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI.In his inimitable style, Angelo Quattrocchi traces the evolution of JosephRatzingerrs"s life, beginning with the popers"s childhood in Nazi Germany, hismembership of the Hitler youth in Bavaria and his conscription into theGerman anti-aircraft corps. His has been a startling career, a story that helpsexplain his development as a reactionary theologian and culminates in hiscarefully planned election to the papacy in 2005. Quattrocchi contraststhe Popers"s doctrinal rigidity on issues such as birth control, abortion, andhomosexuality to his extravagant attire and his controversial relationshipwith his private secretary, Cardinal Georg Gauml;nswein. Rigidity on all fronts. Illustrated throughout and including Ratzingerrs"s key writings onhomosexuality as an appendix, The Pope is Not Gay! sheds new lighton the Catholic Churchrs"s sustained interference in contemporary politicsand society and the hypocrisy of its pontiffs past and present.

Anarchist and poet, Angelo Quattrocchi (1945–2009) reported from London, Paris and the US for Italian newspapers in the 1960s and 1970s and subsequently worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC, Channel 4, and Italian television. His books include The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968, What Happened, Why It Happened with Tom Nairn.