Father Tierney Stumbles

Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay, Literary
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Author: John Shekleton ISBN: 9781462009251
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: June 30, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: John Shekleton
ISBN: 9781462009251
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: June 30, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

In the blink of an eye, everything has changed for Father Joe Tierney. He feels trapped. He needs to get awayfar away. Dressed in disguise, he opens the door of the STD clinic and runs until his sides hurt and he is gasping for air. Father Tierney, activist pastor of a large Catholic parish and closeted gay man, has just learned he is HIV positive.

As if the diagnosis were not enough, a big city newspaper has just published an expos on Catholic priests with AIDS. Father Tierney must guard his secret with his life or become the victim of a witch hunt or, worse yet, a public scandal of monumental proportions. Desperate to confide in someone, Father Tierney finally reveals his secret to Pascal LaVigne, his openly gay friend. But when Pascal hears from his ex-boyfriend, a freelance writer who wants to write a similar story with a local angle, Father Tierney and others in the Catholic Church fear the worst.

As guilt, shame, and a desperate struggle for redemption plays out in the lives of clergy, friends, and the media, Father Tierney struggles to keep a secret that has the potential to destroy everythingincluding his own soul.

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In the blink of an eye, everything has changed for Father Joe Tierney. He feels trapped. He needs to get awayfar away. Dressed in disguise, he opens the door of the STD clinic and runs until his sides hurt and he is gasping for air. Father Tierney, activist pastor of a large Catholic parish and closeted gay man, has just learned he is HIV positive.

As if the diagnosis were not enough, a big city newspaper has just published an expos on Catholic priests with AIDS. Father Tierney must guard his secret with his life or become the victim of a witch hunt or, worse yet, a public scandal of monumental proportions. Desperate to confide in someone, Father Tierney finally reveals his secret to Pascal LaVigne, his openly gay friend. But when Pascal hears from his ex-boyfriend, a freelance writer who wants to write a similar story with a local angle, Father Tierney and others in the Catholic Church fear the worst.

As guilt, shame, and a desperate struggle for redemption plays out in the lives of clergy, friends, and the media, Father Tierney struggles to keep a secret that has the potential to destroy everythingincluding his own soul.

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