Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia
- ISBN-10
- 0813190509
- ISBN-13
- 9780813190501
- Series
- Mountain Sisters
- Category
- Women in church work
- Pages
- 299
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Authors
- Helen Matthews Lewis, Monica Appleby
Description
Inspired by a photograph of a nun riding a tractor, dozens of young Catholic women left their families in the 1940s and 1950s to join a new religious order known as the Glenmary Sisters. The order offered women the opportunity to act as domestic missionaries, experience adventure, and escape the homefront social pressures of post-World War II America. The sisters actively pursued a call of service to rural Appalachian communities but soon became frustrated with the rules and restrictions of the Roman Catholic Church. Outmoded doctrines -- including styles of dress -- made it exceedingly difficult for them to interact with the very people they hoped to help.
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