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Breaking Through: Catholic Women Speak for Themselves
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Description
Catholic women are some of the most maligned, most caricatured, and most intriguing people in American society.America is flirting with the idea that being a Catholic female means saying "yes" to the faith as a private source of comfort, but "no" to living out its more countercultural moral and social teachings.
Catholic women are facing unprecedented questions about sex, money, marriage, work, children and the church itself -- questions with innumerable personal and societal repercussions. Is it even possible that the teachings of a 2,000 year old religion are still relevant for today's toughest issues?
A quick tour of leading cultural indicators seems to say "no." But this is far from the whole story. Many women, courageously facing questions their mothers and grandmothers would never have encountered, are finding intellectually and spiritually satisfying answers within the framework of their Catholic faith.
Nine such Catholic women -- varying widely in age, occupation and experience -- share personal stories of how they struggled toward the realization that the demands of their faith actually set them free. Their stories -- full of honesty, but ultimately hope -- shed new light and new clarity on women's continued attraction to the Catholic faith.
Topics include:
- Navigating dating and sexpectations
- Feminism, freedom and contraception
- Children versus a "better me"
- Being Catholic in light of the sexual abuse scandal
- Faith, psychology and same-sex attraction
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| Author: Helen M. Alvare | Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor | Binding: Hardcover | Language: English | Pages: 180 |
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