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    Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church

    By Kaya Oakes

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    “Turns the typical conceit of the conversion memoir on its head . . . a fascinating window into the world of belief.” —Zyzzyva Magazine
     
    As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after. But even while she immersed herself in the punk rock scene and proudly called herself an atheist, something kept pulling her back to the religion of her Irish roots.
     
    After running away from the Church for thirty years, Kaya decides to return. Her marriage is under stress, her job is no longer satisfying, and with multiple deaths in her family, a darkness looms large. In spite of her frustration with Catholic conservatism, nothing brings her peace like Mass. After years of searching to no avail for a better religious fit, she realizes that the only way to find harmony—in her faith and her personal life—is to confront the Church she’d left behind.
     
    Rebellious and hypercritical, Kaya relearns the catechisms and achieves the sacraments, all while trying to reconcile her liberal beliefs with contemporary Church philosophy. Along the way she meets a group of feisty feminist nuns, a “pray-and-bitch” circle, an all-too handsome Italian priest, and a motley crew of misfits doing their best to find their voices in an outdated institution. This is a story not only of Kaya’s transformation from ex-Catholic to amateur theologian, but ultimately of the cultural and ethical pushes for change that are rocking the world’s largest religion to its core.
     
    “Not only treats readers to gorgeous prose, but manages to provide an overview and history of the best of the Catholic faith.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 8, 2012
    ISBN9781619020924
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      This midwestern Jew boy thought this memoir about rediscovering faith yet fundamentally disagree with the institutions that claim to guard and foster it by a California Catholic girl was really damn good.