aightforward, comprehensible way. It is my hope that a better understanding of the issues will assist Catholics and [non-Catholics] in a healing process and will help them move past a point of polarization to an acceptance of sexuality and faith as gifts of a loving Creator (5).
Chapter I explores the history of the Church as it developed the strict sexuality-related policy which is causing so many problems and divisions in and out of the Church today. Chapter II examines the forces in the Church pushing toward reform, but Chapter III shows how the Church failed to follow through on that opportunity in the area of birth control. Chapter IV examines the Church's anti-abortion policy and concludes that the Church's "sexual teachings" continue to "come out of a theology of fixed and uncompromising law" (126). Subsequent chapters on homosexuality, celibacy, women and the Church, and carnal love all emphasize the historical commitment of the Church to the same conservative polici
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