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James Alison is an English Roman Catholic priest and theologian.

In “Facing Down the Wolf,” Fr. Alison reflects on what it means to be an openly gay priest.

Fr. Alison’s reflections range from his life as a young boy in the nineteen-sixties, his experience at university, and his conversion to Roman Catholicism to his ongoing ministry as a priest. He illumines the background of his whole life as “a more or less desperate search to winnow out the truth from the lies.”

Read what he has to say.

This image was taken from the video ‘Reading Scripture and the LGBT question’ on jamesalison.com