Transformation of American Catholic Sisters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformation of American Catholic Sisters write by Lora Quinonez. This book was released on 1993. Transformation of American Catholic Sisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a book about change and about people changing. It is a book abaout women, American Catholic sisters, in passage. It tells of the radical transformation that has been underway among sisters for the past four decades, redefining their identities and their way of life." [Preface].
Double Crossed
Double Crossed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Double Crossed write by Kenneth Briggs. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Double Crossed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking exposé of the mistreatment of nuns by the Catholic Church reveals a history of unfulfilled promises, misuse of clerical power, and a devastating failure to recognize the singular contributions of these religious women. The Roman Catholic Church in America has lost nearly 100,000 religious sisters in the last forty years, a much greater loss than the priesthood. While the explanation is partly cultural—contemporary women have more choices in work and life—Kenneth Briggs contends that the rapid disappearance of convents can be traced directly to the Church’s betrayal of the promises of reform made by the Second Vatican Council. In Double Crossed, Briggs documents the pattern of marginalization and exploitation that has reduced nuns to second-, even third-class citizens within the Catholic Church. America’s religious sisters were remarkable, adventurous women. They educated children, managed health care of the sick, and reached out to the poor and homeless. They went to universities and into executive chairs. Their efforts and successes, however, brought little appreciation from the Church, which demeaned their roles, deprived them of power, and placed them under the absolute authority of the all-male clergy. Replete with quotations from nuns and former nuns, Double Crossed uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the Catholic Church. Their voices and Briggs’s research provide compelling insights into why the number of religious sisters has declined so precipitously in recent decades—and why, unless reforms are introduced, nuns may vanish forever in America.
When the Sisters Said Farewell
When the Sisters Said Farewell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the Sisters Said Farewell write by Michael P. Caruso. This book was released on 2012. When the Sisters Said Farewell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Sisters Said Farewell tells an important story of the contributions of Catholic elementary schools to the United States by chronicling the experiences and insights of religious women (nuns) who were the last members of their communities to serve in parish elementary schools, and of those lay men and women who were the first to serve in those roles traditionally filled by the sisters. The dramatic numerical transition from the preponderance of religious women to lay leadership from the 1960s to the 1980s has been documented; this book describes the how and why sisters left Catholic schools. This narrative also provides instructive insights about leadership, transitions, and current trends in religious life and Catholic education. As all educators in Catholic, private, and public schools grapple with questions of delivering an excellent education, this book offers a glimpse into the workings of one of the most amazing educational enterprises in the history of the United States.
American Catholicism Transformed
American Catholicism Transformed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Catholicism Transformed write by Joseph P. Chinnici. This book was released on 2021-05-11. American Catholicism Transformed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Situating the church within the context of post-World War II globalization and the Cold War, American Catholicism Transformed draws on previously untapped archival sources to provide deep background to developments within the American Catholic Church in relationship to American society at large. Shaped by anti-communist sentiment and responsive to American cultural trends, the Catholic community adopted "strategies of domestic containment," stressing the close unity between the Church and the "American way of life." A focus on the unchanging character of God's law as expressed in social hierarchies of authority, race, and gender provided a public visage of unity and uniformity. However, the emphasis on American values mainstreamed into the community the political values of personal rights, equality, acceptance of the arms race, and muted the Church's inherited social vision. The result was a deep ambivalence over the forces of secularization. The Catholic community entered a transitional stage in which "those on the right" and "those on the left" battled for control of the Church's vision. International networking, reform of religious life among women, international congresses of the laity, the institutionalization of the liturgical movement, and the burgeoning civil right movement positioned the community to receive the Vatican Council in a distinctly American way. During the Second Vatican Council, the American bishops and theological experts gradually adopted the reforming currents of the world-wide Church. This convergence of international and national forces of renewal -- and resistance to them -- says Joseph Chinnici, will continue to shape the American Catholic community's identity in the twenty-first century.
The Transformation of American Women Religious
The Transformation of American Women Religious - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of American Women Religious write by Mary Schneider. This book was released on 1986. The Transformation of American Women Religious available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
