from the back cover: "The Rev. John J. McNeill is a Jesuit priest, teacher, scholar, writer, lecturer and psychoanalyst. ... He is co-founder of the New York chapter of Dignity, an organization of Catholic lesbians and gay men. ... James Gaffney, in America magazine, called this book ' ... a theologically and ethically enlightened attempt to demonstrate the intellectual baselessness of current attitudes and policies concerning homosexuality, and to commend a wiser and kinder pastoral approach to the problems and potentialities of homosexuals.' "