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Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate Catholic doctrine on sexuality into law. Miller recounts a dramatic but largely untold history of protest and persecution, which demonstrates the profound and surprising influence that the conflict over abortion in the Catholic Church has had not only on the church but also on the very fabric of U.S. politics. Good Catholics addresses many of today’s hot-button questions about the separation of church and state, including what concessions society should make in public policy to matters of religious doctrine, such as the Catholic ban on contraception.
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Patricia Miller is a Washington, DC-based journalist and editor who has written extensively about the intersection of politics, sex and religion. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, the Nation, Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches and Ms. Magazine. She was formerly the editor of Conscience magazine and the editor-in-chief of National Journal's daily health care briefings, including the Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report.
