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Article: Catholic church embraces old and new
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2008
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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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