Comments on: Welcome

By: Jeri

Jeri — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:00:55 +0000

I am not a young women. I will be 76 on my birthday next month, but this book could still be my book – it is my book! I just wish I had written it when I was thirty, so that you might have had an easier time.

By: Michael R Bloesche

Michael R Bloesche — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:43:36 +0000

Women, and anyone else, who sit in the back pew of the church do so at their own choice. We need to grow up!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:01:26 +0000

Please keep writing bloggers. it is enabling me and others to reflect, think, pray listen and discuss until we all have a voice.

By: Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:46:13 +0000

I attended your luncheon talk sponsored by the Mass. Bible Society and found very enjoyable and interesting. Will defintely get your book when I can.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:00:27 +0000

Wow! This book really resonated with me. I laughed and cried as I read stories that were so similar to my own. “From the Pews in the Back” helped me realize just how much being not just Catholic, but being a young, female Catholic, is part of my identity. I am applying to Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, and I could not have read this book at a better time. Thank you so much to Kate and Jennifer for answering the call to write this book, and thank you to all the women who contributed their stories! My life is enriched because of you, and I understand myself and other Catholic women better now.

Also, it’s so funny that Elizabeth (the comment above mine) mentioned “Finding My Voice;” I JUST bought that book! It’s wonderful so far; I definitely recommend it, especially if you are a campus minister or teach at an all-girls Catholic high school.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:24:48 +0000

Another suggestion for further reading is Beth Knobbe’s book “Finding My Voice: A Young Woman’s Perspective (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2009). It is a volume in a series titled “Called To Holiness: Spirituality for Catholic Women.” http://www.calledtoholiness.org.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:51:19 +0000

Looks interesting, but I never sit in a pew at the back. Where is it that women are required to sit at the back of the church? Normally we sit with the rest of the laity.

By: Kelley O.

Kelley O. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:59:10 +0000

Congratulations Jen! What a fantastic collection of very real, very poignant essays. Well done.

By: Ron Pagnucco

Ron Pagnucco — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:51:59 +0000

Congratulations Kate! and greetings from your old friends at CSB/SJU peace studies. I look forward to reading the book!

By: Darleen

Darleen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:16:48 +0000

This may just be on the list of required reading for a class I teach on Lay Spiritual Practices next Spring. Thanks!