Power of sisterhood : women religious tell the story of the Apostolic Visitation / edited by Margaret Cain McCarthy and Mary Ann Zollmann.
| Other author | McCarthy, Margaret Cain, 1955- editor. |
| Other author | Zollmann, Mary Ann, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2014] |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | xi, 220 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue: Framing the Apostolic Visitation as a Story / Mary Ann Zollmann -- What Is an Apostolic Visitation? / Mary Ann Zollmann -- Situating the Apostolic Visitation in Historical and Theological Context / Patricia Walter -- Tracing the Apostolic Visitation through a Chronology of Primary Sources / Jean Wincek and Nancy Reynolds -- Experiencing the Apostolic Visitation: Part One of the Apostolic Visitation Survey / Margaret Cain McCarthy -- Experiencing the Apostolic Visitation: Part Two of the Apostolic Visitation Survey / Margaret Cain McCarthy -- Living It Twice: Sources of Support and Inspiration / Marcia Allen -- Theological Reflection on the Apostolic Visitation: "Were not our hearts burning within us?" / Addie Lorraine Walker -- Balanced on Thin Ice: The Most Important Part of the Story / Donna Day and Cathy Mueller -- The Experience of the Apostolic Visitation: Remembered, Revisioned, Reclaimed, Released / Mary Ann Zollmann -- Epilogue: The Power of Silence / Mary Ann Zollmann. |
| Abstract | In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States. This book serves as an historical record of the event and describes the experience of the women who participated in it. This book, initiated by a group of women in leadership in their communities during this unprecedented time, grew out of a survey that gleaned the essence of the experience from as many congregations of women religious as possible. After framing the Visitation as a story, situating it in an historical and theological context, tracing its chronology, and detailing the experience as revealed in the survey, the book delves into the deeper meaning of the Visitation for women religious as they experienced it and as they move into the future. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216). |
| ISBN | 9780761864301 paperback : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 076186430X paperback : alk. paper |
| ISBN | electronic |