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The Role of the Nun in Nineteenth-Century America - Variations on the International Theme (Paperback)
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The Role of the Nun in Nineteenth-Century America - Variations on the International Theme (Paperback)
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The Second Vatican Council (1963-65) asked Catholic sisters to
adapt their rules to the needs of modern culture. But how could
they know what to keep and what to discard, if they did not
understand the origins and functions of their rules? To answer
these questions, Sister Ewens studied church laws of the past and
their influence on the present, and analyzed sisters' roles in
nineteenth-century American society. She wanted to help religious
communities, including her own Dominican congregation, (of
Sinsinwa, WI) to understand their rules and roles, so as to better
discern future directions. Along the way she discovered that many
rules dated back to medieval times. She chronicles sisters'
struggles to live those obsolete rules in pioneer settings; their
contributions to education, nursing and social services; their
encounters with bigotry; how they transformed the public perception
of Catholicism; the dangers of wearing the habit in public; and
much, much more. Vatican officials who question American sisters'
roles today could learn from this book why sisters' lives had to
evolve in response to the call of the Council.
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