Author : Mary Helen Beirne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761865858
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This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 1944–1999. This book attempts to look at the Congregation, an ecclesial group of Catholic women religious, from the particular perspectives of spirituality, ministry, and governance. This history provides a view of the experience of women religious within a particular time and place. The Catholic in the pew and researchers alike will gain insight into the life of the Philadelphia Sisters of Saint Joseph in this important era of their transformation.