Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments and Permissions xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Our Father Wills
6. The Nun Speaks to Her Church 11
7. God Shoes 14
8. She, with the Alabaster Jar 25
9. The Chancery 27
10. No One Has Hired Us 34
11. Pain Cries to a Patriarchal Church 38
12. Our Mother Works
13. Sister Dorothy Stang, Assassinated 49
14. Unruly Women: Nuns Out of Order 50
15. Journey to Unruliness 60
16. The Renunciation 69
17. Polishing the Brass 77
18. Timing 83
19. I Am a Catholic Nun 89
20. Faith in the Wasteland 93
21. & The Truth Shall Set U Free 113
22. Sisters behind Walls 132
23. Rose Hawthorne Creates 133
24. When Grief Opens the Doors to the Sacred 134
25. Notes on Contributors 141