A history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded to minister to Catholics in the United States through staffing and administering settlement houses and offering religious education to children enrolled in public schools.
For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church throughout its history. McGuinness provides the reader with an overview of the history of Catholic women religious in American life, from the colonial period to the present