By Shannen Dee Williams (Duke University Press, 2022)
I recently found a book I received as a first communion gift. It is about famous American Catholics and is filled with short, child-friendly biographies. I learned that my luminary coreligionists included Grace Kelly, Babe Ruth, Flannery O’Connor, and John F. Kennedy.
Reading Shannen Dee Williams’ Subversive Habits, I considered for the first time what this book and all of my religious education had…