Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.
Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography, fiction, poetry, and prose, Sisters and former nuns write about their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church. Through their stories we learn how these women act out their missions of social justice, challenge cultural and governmental policies, and attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their religious orders and the strictures of the church hierarchy. At a time when questions of gender, religion, race, and sexuality are provoking intense debate within Catholicism and other Christian traditions, and when religion is frequently invoked in political rhetoric, these stories provide a vital corrective to our contemporary understanding of the role of women and nuns in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction: On Unruly Nuns (and the Women Who Admire Them) Part I. Our Father Wills
The Nun Speaks to Her Church
Julia Rice, OSF
God Shoes
Jeannine Gramick, SL
She, with the Alabaster Jar
Victoria Marie
The Chancery
Jean Molesky-Poz
No One Has Hired Us
Ann Breslin
Pain Cries to a Patriarchal Church
Mary Ellen Rufft, CDP
The Altered Boy
A Pillar of Power
Only a Stone
Crooked Since Birth
Twice-Broken Vows
Bed or Bread?
A Resurrection
Part II. Our Mother Works
Sister Dorothy Stang, Assassinated
Liz Dolan
Unruly Women: Nuns Out of Order
Carole Ganim
Journey to Unruliness
Pat Montley
The Renunciation
Pat Montley
Polishing the Brass
Liz Dolan
Timing
Patricia M. Dwyer
I am a Catholic Nun
Sharon Kanis, SSND
Faith in the Wasteland
Christine Schenk, CSJ Part III. The Holy Spirit Confirms
& The Truth Shall Set U Free
Jane Morrissey, SSJ
Sisters behind Walls
Paula Timpson
Rose Hawthorne Creates
Liz Dolan
When Grief Opens the Doors to the Sacred
Michele Birch-Conery
Notes on Contributors
Mengenai Pengarang
Jeana Del Rosso is Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Director of the Elizabeth Morrissy Honors Program at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Leigh Eicke is a writer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ana Kothe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Together, they are the coeditors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism, also published by SUNY Press.