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A Radical Faith

The Assassination of Sister Maura [Hardback]

by Eileen Markey

    • Author

      Eileen Markey

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Avalon Publishing Group

    • Published

      November 2016

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      The 1980 rape and murder of four American women - three of them Catholic nuns - by the U.S.-trained military of El Salvador shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. But as Congress held hearings, the State Department, CIA, and FBI traded memos, and supporters held emotional memorial services, the women themselves became symbols, shorn of context and background: hapless victims. In A Radical Faith, journalist Eileen Markey sets the record straight, exploring the full and complex life of one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Raised in a tight-knit Irish Catholic community in Queens, New York during WWII, by the 1970s she was organizing and marching against the dictatorship in Nicaragua and willing to take great risks for a movement to transform El Salvador. Drawing on interviews with Maura's family and those she worked with, Maura's letters, and declassified government documents, Markey weaves an intimate portrait of Maura's spiritual and political journey during a shockingly violent era.
      Working in poor communities transformed Maura from an obedient and rule-bound young woman into a provocative critic of authority who pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be faithful to religious conviction and her own heart--even if it meant challenging the CIA-backed regimes that terrorized the poor of Latin America. Maura's life is a microcosm of the larger evolution of postwar Catholicism: from a inward-looking, protective institution in the 1950s, through the dramatic reassessments of Vatican II to a community of Christians grappling with liberation theology and what it meant to serve God in the world and beside the poor in the 1970s. As Pope Francis challenges and fascinates the world with outspoken calls for justice, A Radical Faith provides an up-close account of what a faith that does justice looks like.

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      • Author

        Eileen Markey

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Avalon Publishing Group

      • Published

        November 2016

      • Weight

        568g

      • Page Count

        336

      • Dimensions

        158 x 239 x 36 mm

      • ISBN

        9781568585734

      • ISBN-10

        156858573X

      • Eden Code

        4456883

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      • Author/Creator: Eileen Markey

      • ISBN: 9781568585734

      • Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group

      • Release Date: November 2016

      • Weight: 568g

      • Dimensions: 158 x 239 x 36 mm

      • Eden Code: 4456883


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