Description: Tim Unsworth's Catholics are believers with a genuine love for the church, but who have been pushed to their spiritual and intellectual limits by an institution that is sometimes myopic and punitive. Yet, as one of them, Barbara Blaine, says: "I could no more not be Catholic than I could not be a Blaine". Here is rare testimony from two liberal bishops who would like to see their church join the twentieth century; from a family of six trying to remain faithful to church rules; and from a conservative who feels evicted from the center. There are others, some twenty in all, who consider themselves faithful no matter who says they are "on the edge": female students at Catholic Theological Union who remain committed to a church that happily ordains CTU's male grads while rejecting them; the legendary Patty Crowley who inspires Catholics on the edge everywhere; and Brendan Fay, a gay Irishman who is seen as a contradiction in terms.

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