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Ann Louise Gilligan – Irish Roman Catholic feminist theologian married to Senator Katherine Zappone; was a nun before leaving to pursue an academic career; Jacqueline Grennan Wexler (born Jean Marie Grennan; August 2, 1926 – January 19, 2012), commonly known as Sister J, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister who rose to prominence when she, as President of Webster College, strove ...
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Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order (34 C, 2 P) Leaders of Catholic female orders and societies (1 C, 9 P) Monasteries of secular canonesses (6 P)
A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate ... the popular religiosity of ... and (because she is now dead to the world) receives a new name. Nuns consider themselves part ...
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mendicants (friars or religious sisters who live from alms, recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and; clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have an active apostolic life) Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529.
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