Disordered Quotes

“Deep down, I wanted him to say something else; I wanted him to be someone else. Perhaps, I naively thought I’d find the priest from The Song of Bernadette sitting in that little room waiting for me. I presumed such men in the Catholic Church only existed in old movies. With that, I went in search of a man willing to guide me.”
― Joseph Sciambra, Disordered: A Critical Examination of Gay Life and Culture From One Who Survived

“Who is the better Catholic? The old lady that sits in church, saying her Rosary, and accepting everything the Church teaches or the one who questions everything?” He said: “It was the one who questioned everything.” Part and parcel with this rhetoric concerning the value of doubt was the primacy of the conscience.”
― Joseph Sciambra, Disordered: A Critical Examination of Gay Life and Culture From One Who Survived