On a hot and dusty December day in 1980; the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs; shorn of context and background.In A Radical Faith; journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into one of these women; Sister Maura Clarke. Who was this woman in the dirt? What led her to this vicious death so far from home? Maura was raised in a tight-knit Irish immigrant community in Queens; New York; during World War II. She became a missionary as a means to a life outside her small; orderly world and by the 1970s was organizing and marching for liberation alongside the poor of Nicaragua and El Salvador.Maura's story offers a window into the evolution of postwar Catholicism: from an inward-looking; protective institution in the 1950s to a community of people grappling with what it meant to live with purpose in a shockingly violent world. At its heart; A Radical Faith is an intimate portrait of one woman's spiritual and political transformation and her courageous devotion to justice.
#1425104 in Books 1998-09-30 1998-09-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.97 x 1.18 x 5.96l; 1.23 #File Name: 156554370X320 pages
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Great Read if you wish to be educatedBy Matt GoodwinThis book and any book by the Kennedy brothers is a great read if you wish to know the unbiased truth about the southern side. This book and many other by them give facts with conjecture and prove that the south was right.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great bookBy Rafael RodriguezThis books is a great opportunity to find out more about the civil war. It gives a a new view from the other side of the war with Jefferson Davis and not Lincoln. Best choice; unfortunately I only needed it once and still have it.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Larry OaksGreat service recommend hightly
