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Hoy, Suellen M. Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past (2006) excerpt and text search; Hoy, Suellen. "The journey out: The recruitment and emigration of Irish Religious Women to the United States, 1812-1914." Journal of Women's History (1995) 7#1 pp: 64-98. online; Immaculate Heart of Mary and Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago is a Roman Catholic Benedictine congregation of women. It was founded in 1861 by three sisters of the Benedictine congregation of Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, who came to Chicago to teach the German-speaking children of St. Joseph's parish. They became an independent congregation in 1872.
Women are engaged in a variety of vocations, from contemplative prayer, to teaching, providing health care and working as missionaries. In 2006, the number of nuns worldwide had been in decline, but women still constituted around 753,400 members of the consecrated life, of a total worldwide membership of around 945,210. Of these members ...
Courtesy Sundance Film FestivalAny good Catholic—or Catholic survivor—can tell you how much their lives were shaped by nuns. What may surprise the rest of us is how society as we know it today ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories. From Ghana to Texas to a New Orleans convent
After graduating from high school in 1937, she entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary convent in Iowa. In 1941, by then a sister, she returned to teach in California. [ 5 ] Sister Jean completed her B.A. at Mount St. Mary's College (now Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles ) in 1949 and M.A. at Loyola University of Los ...
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 ...
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...