Author : Nancy Taro-Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578172736
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (727 download)
Book Synopsis Ann Mary, Contraception and the Pope of Rome by : Nancy Taro-Murphy
Download or read book Ann Mary, Contraception and the Pope of Rome written by Nancy Taro-Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three babies and two miscarriages. Ten years. Use contraceptives and be damned to hell.This has long been the plight of devout Catholic women. Pope Francis, currently everyone's darling, hints of change. Ann Mary, Contraception and the Pope of Rome gives this timely issue flesh and blood, humor and pathos. Ann Mary fears hell, honors the clerics, and lives in strict obedience to the Pope of Rome. But the Pope is asking too much of Ann Mary. Hope comes from an unexpected source.Set in Post WW II San Francisco, the novel recalls a city of neighborhoods, old open-ended iron streetcars, sparse traffic, Playland, the dunes bordering Ocean Beach, and the way children played, happily and safely, in the streets outside their row houses. Much of the drama unfolds in the thriving Catholic Church of the 1940's with its vestments, candles, statues, chants and Latin medieval liturgy.Follow Ann Mary, poignant chapters alternating with comic ones, a moving work of sadness and tenderness, humor and love.