<em>The Pope is Not Gay!</em> is an irreverent history of homophobicand sexist obscurantism in the Holy Roman Church and an endoscopicexamination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI.In his inimitable style, Angelo Quattrocchi traces the evolution of JosephRatzinger&rsquo;s life, beginning with the pope&rsquo;s childhood in Nazi Germany, hismembership of the Hitler youth in Bavaria and his conscription into theGerman anti-aircraft corps. His has been a startling career, a story that helpsexplain his development as a reactionary theologian and culminates in hiscarefully planned election to the papacy in 2005. Quattrocchi contraststhe Pope&rsquo;s doctrinal rigidity on issues such as birth control, abortion, andhomosexuality to his extravagant attire and his controversial relationshipwith his private secretary, Cardinal Georg Gänswein. Rigidity on all fronts. <br /><br />Illustrated throughout and including Ratzinger&rsquo;s key writings onhomosexuality as an appendix,<em> The Pope is Not Gay!</em> sheds new lighton the Catholic Church&rsquo;s sustained interference in contemporary politicsand society and the hypocrisy of its pontiffs past and present.