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If Nuns Ruled the World - Ten Sisters on a Mission (Paperback)
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“Fascinating profiles” of remarkable nuns, from an
eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human
trafficking (Daily News [New York]). “In an age of villainy, war
and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes,” writes
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times. “And after trying
Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best
superheroes yet: Nuns.” In If Nuns Ruled the World, veteran
reporter Jo Piazza overthrows the popular perception of nuns as
killjoy schoolmarms, instead revealing them as the most
vigorous catalysts of change in an otherwise repressive society.
Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States
challenging a Congressional budget that threatened to severely
undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who
is willing to spend the rest of her life in prison if it helps
eliminate nuclear weapons; and the inimitable Sister Jeannine
Gramick, who is fighting for acceptance of gays and lesbians in the
Catholic Church. During a time when American nuns are often under
attack from the very institution to which they devote their
lives—and the values of the institution itself are hotly
debated—these sisters offer thought-provoking and inspiring
stories. As the Daily Beast put it, “Anybody looking to argue
there is a place for Catholicism in the modern world should just
stand on a street corner handing out Piazza’s book.”
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