Good Catholic Girls

How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church

Author: Angela Bonavoglia
ISBN: 9780060570613

The inspiring true story of the women who are fighting for the soul of the Catholic ChurchAngela Bonavoglia is a self-described "itinerant Catholic." Born a Catholic, she knew she would die a Catholic. She was resigned to living with the knowledge that the Church had failed to live up to its own ideals, but then she heard the story of one woman who had the courage to say no to the pope. That launched Bonavoglia on a journey of discovery, through which she found many contemporary women, all over the world, stepping forward to challenge one of the last bastions of male authority -- the Roman Catholic Church. She began to believe that change just might be possible.The recently exposed transgressions of priests within the Church stunned the faithful and sent a new surge of energy through the progressive Church reform movement in the United States. Despite the movement's growing profile, the world has only recently learned that Catholic women are the driving force behind reform. Good Cathol

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: 2005-03-01

Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic, Social Science / Women's Studies

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