Invisible voices: Victims of corporal punishment in the 20th …
2022年9月1日 · Anyone who attended Catholic school during the 1950’s, ‘60s, and ’70s will attest to the fact that no one does better punishment, seclusion, restraint, and isolation techniques better than the Catholic orders of nuns who taught in the catholic school systems across the United States and Canada.
Coming to Terms with the Catholic 1950s - Yale University Press
2020年4月16日 · Then there was the visible testimony to Catholic distinctiveness: their school uniforms (unfashionable, but bespeaking a people), nuns in full habit, churches filled every Sunday at each of as many as eight Latin Masses, queues for confession on Saturday night, even the closing of local stores on Good Friday afternoon—the result, as everyone ...
What Catholic School Taught Me About Violence - Newsweek
2009年4月25日 · The nuns who smacked me and my friends at our small elementary school in New Jersey were Sisters of Charity, a cheap bit of irony that always draws a chuckle when I talk about being on the ...
Novitiate Movie: Were 1950s Teaching Nuns a Bad Idea?
If the 1950s convent was a spiritual Shangri-La, why did half the nuns leave and why did the remaining majority pick up acoustic guitars and cheer on the white-washing of their convents and churches? Here’s my theory: The 1950s nuns were being asked to transform their monastic vocation into “outside the convent Activism” and it obscured ...
GROWING UP CATHOLIC IN AMERICA IN THE 1950-1960’s
2020年7月1日 · The Saint Joseph nuns were a particularly strict order of sisters. They wore heavy woolen habits. Made from yards and yards of fabric. Their “habits” were fitted at the waist with voluminous skirts and a “belt’ that resembled a large rosary …
Into Silence and Servitude – How American Girls Became Nuns, …
2018年1月6日 · Brian Titley's Into Silence and Servitude examines the mechanisms through which young American girls and women became nuns between 1945 and 1965. He chose this time period because it was during...
List of former Roman Catholic nuns - Wikipedia
Katharina von Bora – German nun; left the convent to join with the Protestant Reformation and ultimately married Martin Luther; Anna Borkowska – Polish former Dominican nun and prioress best remembered for sheltering 17 young Jewish activists in her convent from Nazi persecution during World War II; was granted a dispensation of her vows ...
The times they were a'changing - U.S. Catholic
2011年6月17日 · Nuns, sans habits, departed Catholic classrooms to march for civil rights or against the war in Vietnam. Massa, dean of the Boston College School for Theology and Ministry and founder of Fordham University’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, has spent the last 10 years analyzing the Catholic experience in the United States since ...
Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States - Wikipedia
Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States have played a major role in American religion, education, nursing and social work since the early 19th century. In Catholic Europe, convents were heavily endowed over the centuries, and were sponsored by the aristocracy.
Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-90.
2020年11月17日 · Did the emphasis on silence deepen the relationship with God or prevent those human exchanges in which spirituality can develop? How could nuns and sisters, trained to keep other people at a distance, learn to negotiate newly …