There are Exceptions to Every Rule: Adjusting the Boundaries – Catholic Sisters and the American West

The essay argues that the expansion of Catholic mission work throughout the nineteenth-century American West brought into focus diverse challenges for nuns. In the West, nuns, like many other pioneer immigrants, tested themselves – physically, culturally, intellectually, spiritually – and in each ca...

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Main Author: Butler, Anne M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Catholic Historical Society 2005
In: American catholic studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 116, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-22
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