Holy Rollers
At The American Prospect, Clare Malone chronicles the “progressive dissidents challenging the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.” While Network’s “Nuns on the Bus” campaign has garnered the most media attention, the Catholic sisters are just one example of “what some call a ‘civil-rights movement’ within American Catholicism—an expanding coalition of activists bent on reforming the church from within and changing the public’s perception of it as a solely conservative force on social issues.”