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Sisters - Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (Paperback)
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In the 1800s, nuns moved west with the frontier, building hospitals
and schools in immigrant communities. They provided aid during the
Chicago fire, cared for orphans and prostitutes during the
California Gold Rush, and brought professional nursing skills to
field hospitals on both sides of the Civil War.
In the 1900s, nuns built the nation's largest private school and
hospital systems, and brought the Catholic Church into the Civil
Rights movement. As their numbers began to decline in the 1970s,
many sisters were forced to take professional jobs as lawyers,
probation workers, and hospital executives because their salaries
were needed to support older nuns, many of whom lacked a pension
system. Currently there are about 65,000 sisters in America, down
from 204,000 in 1968. Their median age is sixty-nine.
Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional
women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new
charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges.
Sweeping in its scope and insight, Sisters reveals the spiritual
wealth that these women invested in America.
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