If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission

If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission

<DIV><B>“Fascinating profiles” of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (<I>Daily News</I> [New York]).</B><BR /><BR /> “In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes,” writes Nicholas Kristof of <I>The New York Times</I>. “And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns.”<BR /><BR /> In <I>If Nuns Ruled the World</I>, veteran reporter Jo Piazza overthrows the popular perception of nuns as killjoy schoolmarms,  instead revealing them as the most vigorous catalysts of change in an otherwise repressive society.<BR /><BR /> Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Congressional budget that threatened to severely undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who is willing to spend the rest of her life in prison if it helps eliminate nuclear weapons; and the inimitable Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is fighting for acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church.<BR /><BR /> During a time when American nuns are often under attack from the very institution to which they devote their lives—and the values of the institution itself are hotly debated—these sisters offer thought-provoking and inspiring stories. As the <I>Daily Beast</I> put it, “Anybody looking to argue there is a place for Catholicism in the modern world should just stand on a street corner handing out Piazza’s book.”</DIV>