Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, sometaught, 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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Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, sometaught, 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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Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

by John J. Fialka
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

by John J. Fialka

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Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, sometaught, 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312325961
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/17/2003
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

John J. Fialka is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. He lives in McLean Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Prologuexi
1.Spirited Women1
2."The Walkin' Nuns"20
3.Fanny and Her "Swans"36
4.Mother Exodus48
5."The North Ladies"58
6.Tale of Two Cities71
7.Mother and the Magdalens83
8.Wild in the West92
9.Cui Bono?106
10.Serfs and Turf119
11.Life in God's Mansion132
12.Breaking Mencken's Law145
13."There Should Be Uniformity"155
14.The Little Buds169
15.The Way We Were178
16.The Way We Weren't189
17.Over the Top199
18.Collision213
19.Breakdown226
20.Closing238
21.Fighting for Life250
22.Becoming History262
23.Blasting Out of the Rough275
24.God of the Small284
25.Yeast295
26.The Road to St. Cecilia's311
27.No Time for Dancing325
Notes337
Index355
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