Faith at the Edge A New Generation of Catholic Writers Reflects on Life, Love, Sex by Angelo Matera

Introduction     ix
I Scourge the Body Electric   Brian Pessaro     1
This is my Body   Elizabeth Wirth     11
Porn and the Sacred Heart   Patrick Still     17
Confessions of an Undercover Virgin   Anna Broadway     27
Gay and Catholic   David Morrison     33
After Katrina   Jessica Griffith     39
My Tallahassee Purgatory   Brian Pessaro     45
The Sacrament of Matrimony   Paula Huston     55
Like a Natural Woman   Elizabeth Wirth     61
Since Most Guys do it   Matthew Lickona     71
Motherhood as Vocation   Lisa Lickona     77
A Young Father's Cry   Matthew Lickona     85
Open to Life   Rebecca Robinson     91
Coming Out   Eve Tushnet     101
Emily Rose's Exorcism-and Mine   John Zmirak     113
Encountering the Scourged Christ   Jack Smith     123
The Harsh and Dreadful Love of the Poor   Marion Maendel     129
Naked: Into the Waters of Vulnerability at Lourdes   Austen Ivereigh     139
Laughter WillSave the World   John Jalsevac     149
First Friday in Lent   Jessica Griffith     165
Eternity in the Here and Now   Harold Fickett     185
About the Contributors     189
Acknowledgments     195