If there’s one subject on which it’s difficult to have a rational discussion in these irrational times it’s the thorny topic of same sex attraction. I know this from bitter experience because I was recently banned from speaking at a large secular university because I had written a book on Oscar Wilde which did not wholeheartedly endorse Wilde’s desertion of his wife and children in pursuit of the homosexual lifestyle. Some things are sacrosanct, it seems, but not fidelity in marriage or the best interests of children.

One of the few places in which I have seen genuine sense and sensitivity on the subject of same sex attraction is in Dena Hunt’s novel, The Lion’s Heart. This being so, I was delighted to see this excellent and thoughtful appraisal of the novel’s merits in the National Catholic Register: 

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/sarah-reinhard/two-novels-that-made-me-think-this-summer/