Wexler explores women's struggles to be both feminist and Catholic.(Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope)

Simone Campbell, executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK; * Barbara Blaine, founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP); * Frances Kissling, who opposed the church's teaching on contraception and abortion and was president of Catholics for a Free Choice (now Catholics for Choice) for 25 years; * Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, which represents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics; * Diana Hayes, the first AfricanAmerican woman to earn a pontifical doctorate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, who is now an emeritus professor of theology at Georgetown University. [...]she notes the dangers facing a church that is unwilling to allow women a greater role and voice.