A noted gay writer, [Jack] Fritscher said he was celibate at the seminary. "I probably became gay because of the [Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio], although nothing happened (to me) there."Jack Fritscher's C.V., as posted on his website (WARNING!!):
(b. 20 June 1939, christened John Joseph Fritscher, and published as both John J. Fritscher and Jack Fritscher) lives in the Sonoma wine country north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The first of his more than 500 published photographs—mostly in the periodical metier of magazine covers, photography features, and centerfolds—appeared in 1961 as illustration accompanying his early poetry and magazine fiction. He is the author of more than 400 published feature articles and short-fiction stories as well as of two produced plays, three novels, five fiction anthologies, and three non-fiction books, the most recent of which is his popular culture memoir of his one-time bi-coastal lover, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera. His 1990 novel is about the Golden Age of Liberation in the 1970's, Some Dance to Remember. Both Mapplethorpe and Some Dance are under consideration as motion pictures. As founding San Francisco editor of Drummer, Jack Fritscher re-invented and conceptualized this very first post-Stonewall leather-Levi magazine as a gay pop-culture journal created for masculine-identified gay men; he is the official First Editor Emeritus of DRUMMER Magazine and in his long-running "Rear-View Mirror" column he details homomasculine leather literature, art, photography, personalities, places, and events. See DRUMMER History. He received his doctorate in American literature from Loyola University of Chicago in 1968, and frequently reads and speaks on the aesthetics and politics of writing, photography, and the arts in American popular culture. With his spouse of over two decades, Mark Thomas Hemry, he has directed more than 100 videos for their California production company.Any way of knowing if this guy was ever laicized, sinkspur?EDUCATION
BA, Philosophy and English, Post-Graduate Work in Aquinian Theology, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus Ohio, 1961-1963, 1953-1963 Scholarship to this Roman Catholic Seminary directly subject to the Pontiff, the Pope, at The Vatican in Rome:ordained with minor orders of Porter, Lector, Acolyte, and Exorcist.
MA, English,
Loyola University of Chicago, 1966,
Thesis: When Malory Met Arthur
Ideal Love in Malory's Morte d'ArthurPh.D., English: British and American Literature/Creative Writing and Journalism
Loyola University of Chicago, 1968,
Dissertation: Love and Death in Tennessee WilliamsPost-Doctoral:
Oxford University, Christ Church College, Oxford, England, 1997
Hollywood Film Institute, 1996
University of California, Berkeley, 1975, 1978
San Francisco State University, 1974
He was never in major orders. The four orders listed are MINOR orders; porter and exorcist aren't conferred any longer.
Laicization is only required in the cases of deacons and priests; bishops are NEVER laicized, as far as I know.
This must have happened while he was a priest. Aren't priests the only one allowed to perform an exorcism? And then doesn't it take an additional two witnesses (priests) also?