A Priest On Trial

Lynch, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0747510369 / ISBN 13: 9780747510369

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 1993

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Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped, slight foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Photographs; 208 pages; Lynch is an out gay Irish-born Roman Catholic priest, author, and activist who has worked for the rights of LGBT people for more than forty years starting with his work in Dignity USA the LGBT Catholic group, in the 1970s. Lynch founded the first AIDS ministry in New York City and publicly testified in favour of New York City s lesbian and gay rights bill that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in jobs and public accommodations, seeing it through to passage by the New York City Council in 1986. Lynch s support for LGBT rights brought down on him a false prosecution perpetrated by church and government officials. Lynch won total exoneration in the Bronx Supreme Court and this is his own account of that troubling time in his life.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Priest On Trial
• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0747510369
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780747510369
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good+
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

On 13 May 1988 Father Bernard Lynch was indicted on five charges of child abuse. On 21 April 1989 the prosecution case collapsed, as it became apparent that the evidence against him had been fabricated. Since 1977 Father Lynch had ministered to the Catholic gay community in New York, whose members were, and still are, forbidden to worship on Catholic Church property. The upsurge of AIDS in the 1980s prompted Father Lynch to found a Catholic AIDS ministry, but his work with AIDS sufferers incurred severe censure from Rome. Specifically, his attempts to explain homosexual relationships as acceptable and loving, sometimes even in the face of death, were at odds with the strict teaching of the Church, and provoked bitter conflict with New York's Cardinal O'Connor, who ordered Father Lynch to end his ministry. Determined to continue his work, even if it meant doing so without official Church blessing, Father Lynch remained undiscouraged. "Being identifed with the oppressed', he has observed, `means that I am going to be oppressed". A relentless persecution campaign was mounted in a bid to get him removed from his post at a boy's school, and this led to hie false indictment. In this book, he tells his life story, bringing into focus his often controversial attitudes to gays, the Catholic Church, God, love and sexuality. Central to the book is a detailed reconstruction of the trial, a courtroom drama reminiscent of "The Bonfire of the Vanities".