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According to Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist for The New
York Times Sunday Review, many
of today’s nuns bear little resemblance to stereotypic “prim figures cloistered in convents.”
Jo Piazza, author of If
Nuns Ruled the World, explains
that nuns today “combine reverence with ferocity” by “confronting
warlords, pimps and thugs” around the world.
Piazza’s explanations were partly based upon interviews that she did with three stalwart nuns: Sister
Megan Rice (who, at age 82, is currently serving a three-year prison sentence for masterminding a protest break-in at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear complex); Sister Jeannine Gramick (who, in 1977, founded a ministry “to support gay and lesbian Catholics,” and Sister Madonna Buder (who, at age 82, completed an Ironman triathlon).
It is biographies such as these that have inspired Kristof to rate nuns as being “among the first feminists.” He emphasizes
that it is nuns who actually “walk the walk,” while the rest of us seem content to merely sit on the sidelines and mock.
Resources
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-sister-acts.html?_r=1#story-continues-1
Copyright September 8, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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