Article: Catholic church embraces old and new

SPIRITUAL LIFE

The advent of parenthood pushed Laurie Moynihan and her husband into a search for a church, one that could help them teach morality to their children. Unlike some of her generation with a similar desire, Moynihan did not return to the church of her upbringing, for Roman Catholicism had never taken with her.

As soon as she got out the door for college, "I was a Christmas and Easter Catholic from that point on," she recalled. She was put off by the church's conservative stand on matters from homosexuality to premarital sex to divorce, the latter especially touching her since her first marriage broke up. By the time she remarried, she and her husband had found a female priest to ...

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