Sister trouble
Subtitle: the Vatican, the bishops, and the nuns
By: Marian Ronan
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781484197929
Subjects: Nuns; Monasticism and religious orders for women; Catholic Church
Description: "In twenty-three memorable essays, Sister Trouble chronicles the recent crackdown on U.S. sisters by the male hierarchy of the Catholic church, situating it within the history of gender relations from the early centuries of the church to the post-Vatican II era"--
Table of contents: title: I. The Vatican, the bishops, and U.S. Catholic sisters, 2009-2012; title: Double-crossed; title: Letter to the Apostolic Nuncio; title: Nothing changed at Vatican II, doncha know?; title: U. S. Catholic sisters urge health care reform; title: Stupak: who cares what the nuns think?; title: The Elizabeth Johnson affair; title: Bringing the nuns to heel; title: Rome vs. the sisters; title: Only 5 million real Catholics in the U.S.?; title: $upport our $ister$; title: St. Joan of Arc, pray for us; title: Catholic Church is lucky it's just same-sex marriage; title: Shall we give up on Rome?; title: Irish Catholic sisters in the struggle; title: Everything that descends must converge: Archbishop Sartain in the news; title: Terry Gross interviews Bishop Blair; title: II. Understanding the conflict; title: Sister trouble: the Vatican investigations of U.S. Catholic sisters; title: III. Why I care; title: Joan of Arc: a genealogy; title: Something serious and fine; title: Into the middle of next week; title: Michael Moore as a liberation Catholic; title: The vitality of one Catholic sister; title: Farewell, dear sisters.