Bending Toward Justice: Sr. Kate Kuenstler and the Struggle for Parish Rights - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sheed & WardISBN-13:9798881800475UPC:9798881800475Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Church, Institutions & OrganizationsBook Topic:Catholic, AdministrationSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCER2H83JA
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sheed & WardISBN-13:9798881800475UPC:9798881800475Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Church, Institutions & OrganizationsBook Topic:Catholic, AdministrationSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCER2H83JA
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.
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