Woman's faith journey twists, turns its way to Rome

Published: 2005-05-04

SAGINAW, Mich. (CNS) -- The chapters in Erica Laethem's faith story are being written at an exceptional pace these days. In just three years, the 23-year-old has gone from drifting far from her Catholic upbringing and finding spiritual nourishment with an interdenominational evangelical movement to returning to her faith, embracing it and studying bioethics at a Catholic university in Rome. Earlier this year, the Caro native and University of Michigan honors graduate was in New York, participating in efforts to lobby delegates at the U.N. General Assembly on resolutions against legalized prostitution, human trafficking and efforts to promote an international right to abortion. She made the trip from Rome, where she is one of three American lay women studying bioethics at Regina Apostolorum university.

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