Title: Generous lives : American Catholic women today /
Authors: Redmont, Jane.
Publisher: W. Morrow and Co.,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Women in the Catholic Church United States.; Catholic women United States Biography.
Abstract: Women are the heart and soul of the Catholic church, passing on its faith and traditions to the next generation. But an exclusively male hierarchy voices official teaching on faith and the moral life, and excludes from the ordained ministry the women who dedicate so much of their lives to the Church. More and more American Catholic women are choosing to leave the Church, yet most of them stay. Why? What does it mean to these women to be Catholic? To be women? To be American? In Generous Lives, Jane Redmont has gone beyond theories and taken these questions directly to the women in the street, creating a realistic and fascinating portrait of the female half of a living religion. Redmont interviewed more than a hundred American women between the ages of seventeen and ninety-two, in cities, suburbs, and rural areas from New England to south Texas and California to Wisconsin.^
Contents: 1. Marlene Jones -- 2. Pluralistic Americans, Poetic Adults: Catholic Women Today -- 3. Nancy Vitti -- 4. Becoming a Catholic Woman -- 5. Karen Doherty -- 6. Knowing God, Naming God -- 7. Carmen Badillo -- 8. The Common Good -- 9. Christine Beckley -- 10. A Woman's Work -- 11. Mary Wunnicke -- 12. Loving Well -- 13. Teresita Bravo-Paredes -- 14. We Are Church (Or Are We?) -- 15. Kathi Bowers Wallis -- 16. Why They Leave and Why They Stay -- 17. Jeannette Normandin -- 18. "You're a What?" Catholic Women as Ministers -- 19. Sylvia Park -- 20. The Future, in This Life and the Next.