If Nuns Ruled the World

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781453287644

<DIV><B>&ldquo;Fascinating profiles&rdquo; of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (<I>Daily News</I> [New York]).</B><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes,&rdquo; writes Nicholas Kristof of <I>The New York Times</I>. &ldquo;And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns.&rdquo;<BR /><BR /> In <I>If Nuns Ruled the World</I>, veteran reporter Jo Piazza overthrows the popular perception of nuns as killjoy schoolmarms, &#160;instead revealing them as the most vigorous catalysts of change in an otherwise repressive society.<BR /><BR /> Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Congressional budget that threatened to severely undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who is willing to spend the rest of her life in prison if it helps eliminate nuclear weapons; and the inimitable Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is fighting for acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church.<BR /><BR /> During a time when American nuns are often under attack from the very institution to which they devote their lives&mdash;and the values of the institution itself are hotly debated&mdash;these sisters offer thought-provoking and inspiring stories. As the <I>Daily Beast</I> put it, &ldquo;Anybody looking to argue there is a place for Catholicism in the modern world should just stand on a street corner handing out Piazza&rsquo;s book.&rdquo;</DIV>