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A Radical Faith - The Assassination of Sister Maura (Hardcover)
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A Radical Faith - The Assassination of Sister Maura (Hardcover)
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On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four
American women- three of them Catholic nuns- were pulled from a
hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been
murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran
military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set
off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The
women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and
background.In A Radical Faith , journalist Eileen Markey breathes
life back into one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who was
this woman in the dirt? What led her to this vicious death so far
from home? Maura was raised in a tight-knit Irish immigrant
community in Queens, New York, during World War II. She became a
missionary as a means to a life outside her small, orderly world
and by the 1970s was organizing and marching for liberation
alongside the poor of Nicaragua and El Salvador.Maura's story
offers a window into the evolution of postwar Catholicism: from an
inward-looking, protective institution in the 1950s to a community
of people grappling with what it meant to live with purpose in a
shockingly violent world. At its heart, A Radical Faith is an
intimate portrait of one woman's spiritual and political
transformation and her courageous devotion to justice.
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