LEADER 04715nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910821887203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-6623-0 010 $a0-8232-3991-8 010 $a0-8232-4943-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823266234 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064891 035 $a(EBL)3239637 035 $a(OCoLC)797844786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000657602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656459 035 $a(PQKB)10509754 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092891 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239637 035 $a(OCoLC)826442811 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16208 035 $a(DE-B1597)554983 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823266234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561969 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818164 035 $a(OCoLC)1099083499 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2038757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2038757 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064891 100 $a20110803d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNeighbors and missionaries $ea history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine /$fMargaret M. McGuinness 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-3988-8 311 0 $a0-8232-3987-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. From Wellesley College to the Lower East Side --$t2. Fighting to Save the City of New York --$t3. Neighbors and Teachers --$t4. Settlements Go South --$t5. More than Settlement Houses --$t6. Changes and Continuities --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine community was founded in 1910 by Marion Gurney, who adopted the religious name Mother Marianne of Jesus. A graduate of Wellesley College and a convert to Catholicism, Gurney had served as head resident at St. Rose?s Settlement, the first Catholic settlement house in New York City. She founded the Sisters of Christian Doctrine when other communities of women religious appeared uninterested in a ministry of settlement work combined with religious education programs for children attending public schools. The community established two settlement houses in New York City?Madonna House on the Lower East Side in 1910, followed by Ave Maria House in the Bronx in 1930. Alongside their classes in religious education and preparing children and adults to receive the sacraments, the Sisters distributed food and clothing, operated a bread line, and helped their neighbors in emergencies. In1940 Mother Marianne and the Sisters began their first major mission outside New York when they adapted the model of the urban Catholic social settlement to rural South Carolina. They also served at a number of parishes, including several in South Carolina and Florida, where they ministered to both black and white Catholics. In Neighbors and Missionaries, Margaret M. McGuinness, who was given full access to the archives of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, traces in fascinating detail the history of the congregation, from the inspiring story of its founder and the community?s mission to provide material and spiritual support to their Catholic neighbors, to the changes and challenges of the latter half of the twentieth century. By 1960, settlement houses had been replaced by other forms of social welfare, and the lives and work of American women religious were undergoing a dramatic change. McGuinness explores how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine were affected and how they adapted their own lives and work to reflect the transformations taking place in the Church and society. Neighbors and Missionaries examines a distinctive community of women religious whose primary focus was neither teaching nor nursing/hospital administration. The choice of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to live among the poor and to serve where other communities were either unwilling or unable demonstrates that women religious in the United States served in many different capacities as they contributed to the life and work of the American Catholic Church. 676 $a271/.97 700 $aMcGuinness$b Margaret M$0262350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821887203321 996 $aNeighbors and missionaries$94056772 997 $aUNINA