'Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America,' by Paula M. Kane

From 1850 until 1920, Catholic nuns were virtually everywhere on the North American continent.

I came to Mary C Sullivan rsquo s biography of Catherine McAuley with several entrenched assumptions about the level of interest a 19th-century Irish founder of a women rsquo s religious order could possibly inspire These assumptions were handily challenged by the narrative sweep that Sullivan map