Pt. 1: Cafeteria Catholics vs. Orthodox Catholics: literary models of Roman Catholicism -- Dante: Cafeteria Catholic? / Ronald B. Herzman -- Graham Green, believing skeptic / Darren J.N.Middleton -- Wild(e) religion: the legacy of Oscar Wilde for queer theology / Frederick S. Roden -- Queering the Eucharist: Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "The Blessed Virgin" / Kathryn Inskeep -- Holy fools in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Helena / Adam DeVille -- Pt. 2: Catholicism and the American culture wars -- Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Red State: how Kevin Smith's spirituality speaks to Generation X / John Kenneth Muir -- The Catholic Worker ethic and the spirit of Marxism / Kate Henley Avrett -- Rosemary's Baby and Cold War Catholicism / Thomas Aiello -- The tragedy of power in The Godfather and Star Wars / Douglas Williams -- Pt. 3: A roadmap for reform -- Roma locuta est, causa finita est: power, discursivity, and the Roman Catholic hierarchy / Dan Wood.
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