Some have written about their ongoing struggles to find a spiritual home in a Church that so often does not understand them or comfort them. Some have written about how they fled from traditional Catholicism, while still being haunted by rituals and traditions that found their way into their art.
Each story is one of self discovery and exploration that will resonate with anyone who has been challenged by how religion struggles to make sense of the world and our place within it.
Jessica Mesman is associate editor of the Christian Century and a widely published writer whose work has been noted in Best American Essays.
Rebecca Bratten Weiss is digital editor of U.S. Catholic magazine, as well as a reporting journalist and poet.