Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction: Living with the Past, Envisioning the Future
Part One: Domestic and Global Social Justice
Mary
You Don't Belong Here
Salt
Citizen Voices
Inundated
"Inundada"
"Inundated"
A Person is a Person
My Better-Late-Than-Never Confirmation
I. Pleni Sunt Caeli et Terra Gloria Tua
II. Nativity
III. Preview
IV. Confession, Communion, and Agita
V. Mortality and Doubt
VI. Reckoning
VII. Twitch Upon the Thread
VIII. The Catechism-The Operation of Grace
IX. Descent of Spiritus Sanctus

Let Us Pray Together
Part Two: Sexuality and Motherhood
From the Womb of Christ
Feminism, Faith, and My Mother's Church
Raising Valerie
Applying for Sainthood
Mystic Trinities
My Mary
Losing My Religion
The Enunciation
Mary is Queen by Grace by Kinship by Conquest by Choice of God
Mary is More Mother than Queen
There is no Stain in you O Mary
Victorious are you Holy Virgin Mary and Worthy of all Praise you are the Virgin Who Crushed the Head of the Serpent
Magdalene
Transubstantiation
Our Hail Mary Pass

Part Three: Spiritual Activism and Utopian Vision
Not Faith
I Could Have Been a Psalmist
On Desire and Direction
The Heretic
Unfinished
La Llorona
The Lydian Woman Speaks to the Dead Saint
Summer Solstice
She Will Rise
Notes on Contributors