Sign In or Create Account Help You have items in your cart. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Wall Street Journal reporter Fialka examines the role played in American society by nuns, who built the nation’s largest private-school and nonprofit-hospital systems. Sweeping in its scope and insight, Sisters reveals the spiritual wealth that these women invested in America. Find Sisters by Fialka, John J at Biblio. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Currently there are about 65,000 sisters in America, down from 204,000 in 1968.
As their numbers began to decline in the 1970s, many sisters were forced to take professional jobs as lawyers, probation workers, and hospital executives because their salaries were needed to support older nuns, many of whom lacked a pension system. Praise for SistersSisterss strength is Fialkas ability to put flesh and blood into the accounts of the lives and work of sisters and to show through.
In the 1900s, nuns built the nation's largest private school and hospital systems, and brought the Catholic Church into the Civil Rights movement. They provided aid during the Chicago fire, cared for orphans and prostitutes during the California Gold Rush, and brought professional nursing skills to field hospitals on both sides of the Civil War. These earlier nuns were mobile, risk-taking, entrepreneurial women who eventually established the largest private hospital network in the nation and the most extensive private school system in the world."Kenneth L.In the 1800s, nuns moved west with the frontier, building hospitals and schools in immigrant communities. those thrilling days of yesteryear when flocks of sisters, many of them, like the men who laid the intercontinental railroad tracks, Irish immigrants, pushed beyond the settled boundaries of the 19th-century America to aid in the civilizing of a continent. Woodward, The New York Times Book Review, "Fialka recovers. These earlier nuns were mobile, risk-taking, entrepreneurial women who eventually established the largest private hospital network in the nation and the most extensive private school system in the world."-Kenneth L.
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