Contradictory Catholic

Via Andrew Sullivan: Michele Madigan Somerville explains how she squares being 'a feminist-progressive living in Brooklyn' who can't 'abide the Vatican's positions' with her born-again Catholicism. In doing so, she provides a glimmer of hope that a reconciliation of faith and reason, of belief and secular modernity, might after all be possible - as does Andrew himself, of course, together with one or two other thoughtful Catholic bloggers.