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Women of Faith : The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (373 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823254767
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women of FaithDDC classification:
  • 200.82
LOC classification:
  • BX4482 -- .C66 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "One Solid Comfort" -- Part I: "Charity Embraces Those Who Abound": The Spirit of Mercy Comes to America, 1846-1929 -- 1. "The spirit of our Institute is mercy, as its name denotes": The Nature of Mercy in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. "Not Bound by Enclosure." The Sisters of Mercy Respond: 1846-1929 -- Part II: "This Mutual Love and Union." From Amalgamation to a Post-Vatican II World: 1929-1980s -- 3. New Community, Same Spirit -- 4. Demanding Decades. Mercy Response to the Clergy and the Laity: 1928-1960s -- 5. "Change Is Blowing Hard": Renewal of Religious Life in the 1960s and 1970s -- 6. Reinventing Community and Service to the World -- Part III: New Life, New Paths, Same Spirit: Carrying Mercy into the Twenty-First Century, 1980s-2008 -- 7. "This Far by Faith": Reimagined Religious Life and the Sisters of Mercy -- Epilogue: West Midwest and the Legacy of the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community -- Appendixes -- A. Parish Grade Schools, Academies, High Schools, Universities, and Alternative Schools -- B. Hospitals, Facilities, and Residences Owned and/or Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Chicago Regional Community -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Connolly examines the history of the Chicago Sisters of Mercy, from its establishment in 1846, expansion in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and development in the twentieth century and into the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a special focus on changes of Sisters Formation Movement and Vatican II.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "One Solid Comfort" -- Part I: "Charity Embraces Those Who Abound": The Spirit of Mercy Comes to America, 1846-1929 -- 1. "The spirit of our Institute is mercy, as its name denotes": The Nature of Mercy in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. "Not Bound by Enclosure." The Sisters of Mercy Respond: 1846-1929 -- Part II: "This Mutual Love and Union." From Amalgamation to a Post-Vatican II World: 1929-1980s -- 3. New Community, Same Spirit -- 4. Demanding Decades. Mercy Response to the Clergy and the Laity: 1928-1960s -- 5. "Change Is Blowing Hard": Renewal of Religious Life in the 1960s and 1970s -- 6. Reinventing Community and Service to the World -- Part III: New Life, New Paths, Same Spirit: Carrying Mercy into the Twenty-First Century, 1980s-2008 -- 7. "This Far by Faith": Reimagined Religious Life and the Sisters of Mercy -- Epilogue: West Midwest and the Legacy of the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community -- Appendixes -- A. Parish Grade Schools, Academies, High Schools, Universities, and Alternative Schools -- B. Hospitals, Facilities, and Residences Owned and/or Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Chicago Regional Community -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Connolly examines the history of the Chicago Sisters of Mercy, from its establishment in 1846, expansion in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and development in the twentieth century and into the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a special focus on changes of Sisters Formation Movement and Vatican II.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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