Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments and Permissions xiii
4. Mysteries of the Faithful, Dreams of the Future 1
5. The Joyful Mysteries
6. the first joyful mystery 9
7. Praying Twice 10
8. My Soul Sisters—or, How the Nuns of my Childhood Inspired a Feisty Feminist 11
9. Jerusalem Road 14
10. Where I First Met God 16
11. Age of Reason 25
12. Uniforms Optional 27
13. Sunday Morning In A Foreign Country 31
14. Wool Skirts 32
15. Lord I am not your woman 41
16. It Takes a Village to Rear a Word Weaver 42
17. Facts of the world I 53
18. girltruth 55
19. the Easter fear 58
20. The Sorrowful Mysteries
21. Holy Thursday: The Passion 62
22. That Easter 63
23. Our Lady of the Library 67
24. For the Vatican Dress Code 69
25. Nothing Soup 71
26. Nailing My Backbone to the Cross 78
27. True Confessions 79
28. Resolution 81
29. Excuse me for this, Sister Mary: 82
30. A Meditation on Sexuality for Catholic Clergy 84
31. Moth Song 93
32. Last of the Tomboy Pings 95
33. Penance 104
34. Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me 105
35. Sister No One 114
36. Superstitions of a Catholic Childhood 116
37. Fear and Trembling 121
38. Rewinding the Wedding Tape 122
39. Invisible Nature 124
40. Lying to God 129
41. Our Father Who? 130
42. Mass Revolt 135
43. Hunger 137
44. Angels 140
45. Confessions of a (Catholic) Presbyterian Woman 150
46. Blue Lights 156
47. The Glorious Mysteries
48. Water’s Wine 160
49. Exile 161
50. Anathema 165
51. Intersections 167
52. Telling My Mother I Can’t Say the Rosary 168
53. Secrets of the Confessional 171
54. Ninth Month 176
55. Resurrection 177
56. The Sentence 178
57. Interior Castle 180
58. Sacrament 182
59. Sister Ming in the Year of the Monkey 183
60. Anthony’s Asceticism 193
61. The Taste Of Apples 194
62. Paula Timpson 196
63. Notes on Contributors 199