Sister Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the Nuns
Marian Ronan was born into a working-class family in Chester, PA, just after World War II and is the descendant of Irish immigrants. She is deeply grateful to the Catholic sisters who educated her for fourteen years, twelve of them for free.Marian is currently Research Professor of Catholic Studies at New York Theological Seminary, a multi-racial multi-lingual Protestant seminary in Manhattan. She earned a Ph.D. in Religion at Temple University and was a member of the faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, from 1999 to 2009. She was the president of the board of the Women’s Ordination Conference from 2000 to 2002 and has been a member of the Grail, an international women’s movement, for nearly fifty years.Among Marian’s four previous books  areWisdom’s Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration(Harper and Row, 1989; with Hal Taussig and Sue Cole) andTracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism(Columbia University Press, 2009). She publishes from time to time onReligion Dispatchesand regularly on her own blog,Marian Ronan: An American Catholic on the Margins of World Christianity.  (http://marianronan.wordpress.com )