Young Women and Catholicism

In November 2005, My Red Couch and Other Stories on Seeking a Feminist Faith was published, a collection of first person narratives by people trying to reconcile their faith and their feminist commitments for which I was a co-editor and contributor.

Now, Kate Dugan and Jen Owens, two graduate students at Harvard Divinity, are putting together a similar anthology, Young Women and Catholicism. They invited young women to tell stories about the role of Catholicism in their lives for consideration in the anthology, and they received over 100 submissions. The large response to their call for papers seems to speak to the importance people place on telling their stories.