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Lapsed / Monica Dux.

Lapsed / Monica Dux.
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282 DUX
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ISBN 9780733340819 (paperback)
Classification 282 DUX
Personal Name Dux, Monica
Title Lapsed / Monica Dux.
Production & Copyright Details Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description vii, 343 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Content type text
still image
Note "Losing your religion is harder than it looks..."--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Another ten years and she'd calmed right down. Now she was just 'lapsed'. Then, on a family trip to Rome, her young daughter suddenly expressed a desire to be baptised. Monica found herself re-examining her own childhood and how Catholicism had shaped her. Was Catholicism really out of her system or was it in her blood for life? In Lapsed, Monica sets out to find the answer. Her investigations lead her to test a miracle cure in Lourdes and to steal from a church. She visits the grave of a headless Saint who claimed to be married to Christ (and wore a wedding ring made of his foreskin to prove it), and speaks to cannon lawyers, abuse survivors and even a nun who insists that the Virgin Mary starts her car every morning. She ponders the big questions, such as would Jesus really make a great dinner party guest or would he end up calling Einstein a blasphemer? And, far more seriously, given what she now knows about clerical abuse and its extent, is it enough to turn her back on the Church, or did she have a deeper, more enduring obligation?
Subject-Personal Name Dux, Monica
Subject-Corporate Name Catholic Church
Subject - Topical Term Catholics -- Australia -- Biography
Ex-church members -- Australia -- Biography
Subject - Genre Autobiographies
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