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Rosalie Morales Kearns, a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, is the founder of Shade Mountain Press, the author of the magic-realist story collection Virgins and Tricksters, and the editor of the short story anthology The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women. A product of Catholic schooling from kindergarten through college, Kearns has a B.A. in theology from Fordham University and an MFA from the University of Illinois.
Kearnsย is the author ofย Kingdom of Women
From the author
[pullquote_left]”I was steeped in CatholicismโCatholic school (kindergarten through high school), compulsoryย Sundayย mass, priests invited to dinners and family events, and so forth. Also Iโve always been interested in religion, the bewildering variety of beliefs, the bloodshed it inspires, the way organized religion can and has played such a huge role in supporting the privileged and oppressing the have-nots. And then as a feminist I always found it enraging that the Catholic Church wonโt allow women into the priesthood. But you have to wonder, why should I have cared? Itโs like I was resenting my exclusion from a club I had no wish to join.ย That said, I really enjoyed inhabiting the mindset of a character for whom Catholicism is the very air she breathes, even as sheโs aware of the institutionโs flaws, the misogyny, the inflexibility of the hierarchy. I remember reading in a biography of Galileo that he angrily resisted pressure by his inquisitors to describe himself as a bad Catholic. He was a devout Catholic, he asserted; it was the leaders of the Church who were evil.” [/pullquote_left]
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Rosalie Morales Kearns
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