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Women's battle to change the church.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05
Format: Online - approximately 942 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Women's battle to change the church.(Book Review)

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GOOD CATHOLIC GIRLS: HOW WOMEN ARE LEADING THE FIGHT TO CHANGE THE CHURCH By Angela Bonavoglia HarperCollins (Regan Imprint), 352 pages, $25.95

In Good Catholic Girls, Angela Bonavoglia takes a fresh look at the post-sexual-scandal church and finds the landscape both familiar and surprising. A seasoned journalist with Catholic feminist sympathies, she casts light on the hitherto largely invisible abuse of girls and women, a subject familiar to her because she covered it in all religions for Ms. magazine in the '90s. What surprises and encourages her today is the discovery that many strong, diverse women are working to change this situation and many others for the sake of the church itself.

Chapters on the abuse of women, the failure to look realistically at the growing shortage of priests and the heavy-handed fight against abortion, contraception, divorce and homosexuality...

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