Women of Faith: The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community
ISBN: 9780823254750
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Religion ; History;

Connolly examines the history of the Chicago Sisters of Mercy, from its establishment in 1846, expansion in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and development in the twentieth century and into the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a special focus on changes of Sisters Formation Movement and Vatican II.

Connolly Mary Beth Fraser :

Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, currently the assistant director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, is an adjunct in history at Valparaiso University. She has taught American, women's, and religious history at universities in New Hampshire and Indiana. She has also worked as the historian for the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community, writing their community's history.


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