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| Author | : Daniel Berrigan |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2009-04-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725225077 |
Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS chronicles Daniel Berrigan's work with people with AIDS during the 1980s at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. For decades Berrigan protested war and nuclear weapons. Then in the early 1980s he also began to minister to those dying of cancer. When AIDS exploded in New York, he offered to accompany the dying at St. Vincent's, one of the first and best care facilities in the nation for people with AIDS. This account tells of the suffering of those with AIDS, an epidemic which now afflicts millions around the globe. It also shows a compassionate Christian response to such suffering. In the process, Berrigan once again teaches us how to make peace. "I list myself among the many admirers of Father Daniel Berrigan. His writings are always poetic and inspirational, his message ever timely and beneficial. Sorrow Built a Bridge is no exception. Father Dan has put a human face on AIDS, the malady which has reached epidemic proportions. He recounts here his own personal journey and ministry with fourteen specific persons for whom 'death was given a royal welcome.' He does not dwell on the causes of AIDS nor does he pass judgment on its victims doomed to 'atrocious suffering.' Father Dan gives meaning to his own experience by choosing and reflecting on selected scripture passages. He also connects his encounters with the deaths of those who were once 'young and vigorous' with his own peacemaking. In both cases, 'dreams turn into nightmares,' 'old hatreds don new fatigues' and 'immunity systems break down both in a person and in a nation.' This book is a special gift to those committed to compassionate care for persons with AIDS." Bishop Walter F. Sullivan (from the Foreword)
| Author | : Katherine Burton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1939 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Radcliffe College |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 2172 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780674627345 |
Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.
| Author | : Daniel Berrigan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Donald DeMarco |
| Publisher | : Emmaus Road Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Christian ethics |
| ISBN | : 0966322398 |
The Many Faces of Virtue is a personable collection of 48 short essays on the virtues, each no longer than six pages. Dr. DeMarco breathes life to the virtues with both historical and living anecdotes from the lives of such as great heroes as Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Pope John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Emily Dickinson.
| Author | : Herman Joseph Heuser |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 668 |
| Release | : 1937 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mary Reichardt |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2001-07-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0313016623 |
Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
| Author | : Emily K. Abel |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2013-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421409194 |
A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.
| Author | : Mary Jane Masterson |
| Publisher | : American Book Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 158982475X |
At the age of five, Mary Jane Masterson's destiny was foretold by a stranger. "That one," said the Brother of Holy Cross, pointing at Mary Jane as he sat comfortably in their living room with her mother, "will be a nun." His prediction, repeated in later years by other friends and acquaintances, became reality when, in 1946 at the age of eighteen, Mary Jane joined the Sisters of St. Joseph and became a "bride of Christ." She adapted quickly to religious life, sharing prayer and living quarters with other nuns, an "elitist group" considered by many in the secular world to have far more than secular access to God's love, a belief encouraged by Vatican I. But as the Second Vatican Council came to a close in 1965, a shift in theology shook Sister Mary Jane to her very core. Had she sacrificed marriage, sex, and children of her own for nothing? Follow Sister Mary Jane on her journey from her calling to the noblest of vocations to her acceptance of how, as a nun, she could affect the world beyond her community and her school.
| Author | : June Melby Benowitz |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1043 |
| Release | : 2017-08-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
This two-volume set examines women's contributions to religious and moral development in America, covering individual women, their faith-related organizations, and women's roles and experiences in the broader social and cultural contexts of their times. This second edition of Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion provides updated and expanded information from historians and other scholars of religion, covering new issues in religion to better describe and document women's roles within religious groups. For instance, the term "evangelical feminism" is one newly defined aspect of women's involvement in religious activism. Changes are constantly occurring within the many religious faiths and denominations in America, particularly as women strive to gain positions within religious hierarchies that previously were exclusive to men and rise within their denominations to become theologians, church leaders, and bishops. The entries examine the roles that American women have played in mainstream religious denominations, small religious sects, and non-traditional practices such as witchcraft, as well as in groups that question religious beliefs, including agnostics and atheists. A section containing primary documents gives readers a firsthand look at matters of concern to religious women and their organizations. Many of these documents are the writings of women who merit entries within the encyclopedia. Readers will gain an awareness of women's contributions to religious culture in America, from the colonial era to the present day, and better understand the many challenges that women have faced to achieve success in their religion-related endeavors.
