Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns - Softcover

A collection of fifty oral history interviews with Catholic American religious women, this book offers an inside look at how these women not only survived but actually embraced the changes that came to every aspect of their lives during the last forty years. The women speak honestly and eloquently of prayer, ministry, and personal relationships. Poverty, Chastity, and Change received excellent reviews in national publications; was the main selection of a book club; and was highly praised by theologians Lawrence Cunningham and Elisabeth Schussler Florenza. Recommended for everyone interested in womens livesand how to move into the future with grace and confidence.

Carole Garibaldi Rogers is a writer, editor, and oral historian. She has published three books and written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and America. The Lilly Endowment and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities supported her research for this book. She currently directs a new oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth in New Jersey.