Margaret Brennan Ssj (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Privately published [Published date: 2004]. Soft cover, 212 pp. No other printings listed. In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and Light overall scuffing. Binding tight (no spine crease). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [from introduction] In 1961 Pope John XXIII issued a plea to religious congregations to send missionaries to Latin America. The response was immediate and impressive. Congregations, even those with no experience in foreign missionary work, took the leap, not knowing what they would find, not knowing how they would best be able to serve, not knowing that they would be part of a process of unprecedented social and ecclesial change. This is the story of one of those Congregations, caught in the whirlwind of revolution and change in the world, in the Church and in religious life itself. Ordinary women from a traditional teaching and nursing order became players in the history of Latin America and of the Catholic Church in a time of upheaval, danger and creativity.