Finding the Treasure
Subtitle: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context (Religious Life in a New Millennium, V. 1)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780809139613
Subjects: Christian life & practice; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Women And The Church; Religion - Catholicism; Women's Studies - General; Religion - Classic Works; Christianity - History - Catholic; Institutions & Organizations; Christianity - Catholic; Monasticism; Monastic and religious life of; Monastic and religious life of women; Christianity - Catholicism
First sentence: When today's older Religious entered the convent sometime after 1900 and before Vatican II, neither they nor their formators had any real sense that Religious Life was not and had not always been the type of life into which they were being initiated in the novitiate.