Power of Sisterhood : Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation - Margaret Cain McCarthy

Power of Sisterhood

Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation

By: Margaret Cain McCarthy (Editor), Mary Ann Zollmann (Editor)

Paperback | 14 November 2014

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In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States. Power of Sisterhood: Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation serves as an historical record of the event and describes the experience of the women who participated in it. This book, initiated by a group of women in leadership in their communities during this unprecedented time, grew out of a survey that gleaned the essence of the experience from as many congregations of women religious as possible. After framing the Visitation as a story, situating it in an historical and theological context, tracing its chronology, and detailing the experience as revealed in the survey, the book delves into the deeper meaning of the Visitation for women religious as they experienced it and as they move into the future.
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Editors Margaret Cain McCarthy and Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM, have rendered a valuable service in gathering these chapters about the Vatican's 2009-2011 Apostolic Visitation (AV) of U.S. congregations of women religious. . . .This book succeeds very well in analyzing how a significant number of sisters experienced the AV. The chapters are very well researched, clearly written, and insightful. They express an inspiring degree of faith and charity. . . .[This book] will be especially useful to scholars of Catholicism, religious history, and women's studies. * American Catholic Studies *
Power of Sisterhood is a multifaceted vehicle for recording the responses of surveyed women religious to the Apostolic Visitation. . . . The authors develop a lively and engaging narrative which captures insightfully individual and communal reactions, providing a rich portrait of the present status of American women religious and an invaluable historical record. I recommend this study highly. -- Howard J. Hubbard, bishop emeritus, Diocese of Albany
If you really want to know what is going on between the nuns and the Vatican, read Power of Sisterhood. This work is clear: the problem is not that the nuns did not "think with the church" (sentire cum ecclesia). The problem is that they did. Power of Sisterhood is a story, a reference book, a history, and most of all, an insight into what happened in every diocese, parish, and convent in the country-as well as what it has meant to be Catholic-in the last 50 years. This book is a landmark in the history of women and a gift to the church. If it will only listen. -- Joan Chittister, OSB

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