“The Laywoman Project” is a book primarily about changing concepts of women’s vocation during that rapidly moving decade.
Catherine R. Osborne
Catherine R. Osborne is a historian of American Catholicism and the author of American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow: Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975 (University of Chicago Press, 2018). She lives in South Bend, Ind.
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A University of Cambridge research project takes a frank look at clericalism and sexuality
While there has been much discussion of clericalism and sexual abuse, writes Catherine R. Osborne, the ability of clergy to maintain a “harmonious relation to sexuality” is relatively unexamined territory.