Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church Book

Angela Bonavoglia introduced me to many good women in the Church, and for this I am grateful. Her passionate story moved me at times to tears, at other times to anger.

Bonavoglia makes her biases known from the beginning--she is a woman determined to stay in the Church, and desiring progressive reform. She is a journalist who knew that her experience while gathering this information was as important to this book as the experiences of those about whom she wrote, and I enjoyed meeting her and the other courageous woman sorting through centuries of discrimination and silencing as they found their voices.

Sometimes was far more interested in what she wrote than in how she wrote it, which meant that her writing style sometimes left much to be desired in the way of grace, though she was always clear.

The struggles of the women in this book struck me as courageous, loving, and passionate.