'A Cause of Trouble'?
Irish Nuns and English Clerics
Irish Nuns and English Clerics
M.M.K. O'Sullivan
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'A Cause of Trouble'?
Irish Nuns and English Clerics M.M.K. O'Sullivan |
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The first women religious in Australia were five Sisters of Charity, one of the Church's newest orders. They came to Sydney from Ireland in 1838. By 1858 all five had left after years of conflict with the hierarchy: one was even excommunicated. Were they the 'cause of trouble' their English Benedictine archbishop claimed? Or 'ministering angels' ~ the name given to them by the people they helped? Was the trouble old and new orders, attitudes towards women, property and power, or styles of authority?
$25 RRP incl GST paperback, 270 pages + xvii, BxW illustrations, indexes |
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