Bending Toward Justice

Auteur

Sister Christine Schenk has worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families, a community organizer, a writer-researcher, and the founding director of an international church reform organization, FutureChurch. Currently she writes an award-winning column for the National Catholic Reporter. Schenk is the author of Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity (2017), which received first place in the history category from the Catholic Press Association. Her most recent book, To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Sr. Theresa Kane RSM (2019) won first place in biography from The Association of Catholic Publishers and a first place in biography from the Catholic Press Association. She is featured in the award-winning documentary Radical Grace and the 2017 documentary Foreclosing on Faith: America's Church Closing Crisis which documents the pioneering canonical advocacy of the late Sr. Kate Kuenstler, which changed Vatican policy around church closings.

Texte du rabat

Inside story of the battles between the Vatican and US Catholic bishops over the rampant closings of Catholic parishes in poor and ethnically diverse neighborhoods across the U.S.-and the social justice advocate and canon lawyer Sister Kate Kuenstler who led the fight to keep them open.

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Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Context - A Church in Crisis

Chapter Two: Seeds of a Prophetic Life

Chapter Three: Canon Law Studies in Rome

Chapter Four: Catholics Discover They Have Rights

Chapter Five: Advocate for the Laity- St. Mary Jamesville, NY

Chapter Six: Making a Way Where There Was No Way

Chapter Seven: In the Diocese of Cleveland, Catholics Rise Up

Chapter Eight: Parishioners Persevere

Chapter Nine: A Landmark Ruling - Rome Upholds Cleveland Appeals

Chapter Ten: Bringing Forth a Harvest

Chapter Eleven: "Making All Things Revenue" - Archdiocese of New York

Chapter Twelve: Perseverance, Pain, and the Will of God

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

About the Author