(On her blog)
I would love to read Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America. That's all I wanted to say for now. Here is what she says (brief anecdote):
Here's a good read, by the way, to get a grip on seeing a job that needs doing and doing it. The book is called, "Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America" and is an amazing trip from Europe to America by young women who were sent alone into the wilderness (when it really was wilderness) to build schools and hospitals and orphanages from nothing. There is a very entertaining story about a nun who befriended Billy the Kid because she was the only person who would give medical attention to one of his buddies who had been shot. She saved the man's life. Billy the Kid visited her whenever he was in town and had his horse do tricks for her.
This reminds me of a book I do not particularly want to read, Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns, in part because it reeks of a smear-campaign against the Church initiated by bitter people, and who wants to read that? But I keep seeing it, and something in me wants to know what they are talking about, if only to disagree. So I am curious to know what an actual, orthodox nun thinks of the book, or the phenomenon--real or imagined--that it depicts. If only Sister Mary Martha would stop by & visit. . .
