Acknowledgments

Introduction

Patricia Beattie Jung

Part One: Interpreting Church Teachings

A Call to Listen: The Church's Pastoral and Theological Response to Gays and Lesbians

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton

Unitive and Procreative Meaning: The Inseparable Link

James P. Hanigan

The Bridegroom and the Bride: The Theological Anthropology of John Paul II and Its Relation to the Bible and Homosexuality

Susan A. Ross

The Church and Homosexuality: A Lonerganian Approach

Jon Nilson

Part Two: Interpreting the Bible

The Promise of Postmodern Hermeneutics for the Biblical Renewal of Moral Theology

Patricia Beattie Jung

Questions about the Construction of (Homo)sexuality: Same-Sex Relations in the Hebrew Bible

Robert A. Di Vito

Romans 1:26-27: The Claim that Homosexuality Is Unnatural

Leland J. White

The New Testament and Homosexuality?

Bruce J. Malina

Perfect Fear Casteth Out Love: Reading, Citing, and Rape

Mary Rose D'Angelo

Part Three: Interpreting Secular Disciplines

Homosexuality, Moral Theology, and Scientific Evidence

Sidney Callahan

Informing the Debate on Homosexuality: The Behavioral Sciences and the Church

Isiaah Crawford

Brian D. Zamboni

Harming by Exclusion: On the Standard Concepts of Sexual Orientation, Sex, and Gender

David T. Ozar

Part Four: Interpreting Human Experience

Papal Ideals, Marital Realities: One View from the Ground

Cristina L. H. Traina

Catholic Lesbian Feminist Theology

Mary E. Hunt

Contributors

Subject Index

Index of Ecclesial Documents