WiccanLiberal
12-31-2012, 02:16 PM
I loved this article. It demonstrates where true faith can lead you.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/30/health/nuns-health-care/index.html
Baby boomer nuns help revolutionize health care(CNN) -- The baby boomer generation's efforts at creating social justice dramatically transformed history -- from the Vietnam War to gay rights.
Even institutions that kept tradition at their very core -- institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church -- were radically changed by this generation.
Within the church, perhaps the biggest agents of this change were its nuns. A wave of new thought during the 1960s opened cloister doors.
While modernization of the church did leave fewer nuns in the pipeline to carry out work in the health care and education fields, the ones who stayed -- this baby boomer generation of religious sisters -- undertook a kind of grass-roots, social justice-oriented health care.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/30/health/nuns-health-care/index.html
Baby boomer nuns help revolutionize health care(CNN) -- The baby boomer generation's efforts at creating social justice dramatically transformed history -- from the Vietnam War to gay rights.
Even institutions that kept tradition at their very core -- institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church -- were radically changed by this generation.
Within the church, perhaps the biggest agents of this change were its nuns. A wave of new thought during the 1960s opened cloister doors.
While modernization of the church did leave fewer nuns in the pipeline to carry out work in the health care and education fields, the ones who stayed -- this baby boomer generation of religious sisters -- undertook a kind of grass-roots, social justice-oriented health care.