{"product_id":"9780733340819-lapsed","title":"Lapsed","description":"\u003cp\u003eLosing your religion is harder than it looks ...   From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Eventually, she calmed down and was just 'lapsed'. Then, on a family trip to Rome, her young daughter expressed a desire to be baptised. Monica found herself re-examining her own childhood and how Catholicism had shaped her. Was it really out of her system or was it in her blood for life? In  Lapsed , Monica sets out to find the answer. Her investigations lead her to test a miracle cure in Lourdes and visit the grave of a headless Saint who claimed to be married to Christ (and wore a wedding ring made of his foreskin to prove it). She speaks to canon lawyers, abuse survivors and even a nun who insists that the Virgin Mary starts her car every morning. With wry humour and razor-sharp observations,  Lapsed  is the story of one woman's attempt to exorcise her religious upbringing, and to answer the question, is Catholicism like a blood group and, if so, is it possible to get a total transfusion? 'Enlightening, forensic and laugh-out-loud funny' -- JANE CARO 'A frank, funny and heartfelt exorcism of our need to believe in a man in the sky' -- SHAUN MICALLEF\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48516292575451,"sku":"9780733340819","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8856cf35-6a03-4353-ad5f-8a0404b3db93_4332142a-be41-46c1-82f4-7a63835fae22.jpg?v=1774577079","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780733340819-lapsed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}