Anthony Petro’s new book already getting reviews!
On Anthony Petro’s After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2015).
By Ann Neumann
In December 1987—nine years after a rare syndrome was first identified in young men in major cities across the US and five years after it was given the name AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)—the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) released “The Many Faces of AIDS,” a document meant to “confront a significant pastoral issue.” More than thirteen thousand Americans had already died of AIDS. Another three hundred thousand would die over the next decade.