Catholic Writing in Australia is fresh, vivid, novel and often surprising. It has also become intensely personal. Once it spoke in an institutional voice with an official accent. In recent decades it has grown out of the experience of writers as they search for meaning and identity in a changing church and society. They tell their own stories in their own voices. Catholic Voices captures the best of this writing. Here is the Australian Vatican II generation working out its answers to the challenges of being Christian at the end of the twentieth century. These writers explore modern response to sex, race, art, politics, church and lifestyles in individual voices which, however different, remain authentically Catholic.