Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such protesters feel that the special nature of Catholic colleges resides more in the promotion of spiritual values generally than in strict adherence to papal guidelines. Says Sister Dorothy Ann Kelly, president of the College of New Rochelle, a women's school in New York: "If the religious nature of an institution were had only in a theology course, that would be pretty thin." Sister Dorothy Ann's college, for instance, encourages a commitment to social justice through a variety of volunteer programs and by example: it maintains satellite campuses in Harlem and the South Bronx for older women...
...issue of how Catholic to be promises to take on additional urgency as vocations dwindle and clergy retire. By the year 2000, faculty and administrators at Catholic colleges will consist almost entirely of laymen. Keeping an institution identifiably Catholic under such circumstances could be difficult. But, says Sister Dorothy Ann, "we're already there. Most people just don't recognize...
This September afternoon Sister is working the back roads of Socorro, a 17th century Spanish mission hamlet, mustering turnout for a meeting with an important politician. In the doorway of a cinder-block home, she embraces a key worker, Anastacia Ledesma, but wastes no time on niceties. "Cuantas personas? Ciento, maybe?" the nun asks in her novice Spanish, inquiring how ) many supporters the area can deliver to the meeting. "Doscientos," comes the reply. "Ah, muy, muy bien," exclaims Ceasar. "Four buses. This time we'll fill four buses...
...Ceasar, 45, mobilizing the colonias is a lot like the teaching she did in Louisiana and Oklahoma as a Sister of Divine Providence. "We're only giving people the tools to act -- like learning to read," she explains. "We're teaching extraordinary things to ordinary people...
...Sister wants to pack Socorro's La Purisima Church parish hall to the rafters to send a message to state officials that no one in the 350 ragtag subdivisions will rest until pipes are laid and water is flowing. Already, the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO), for which she works, has made an imprint. Its nagging pressure since 1983 has snared endorsements, a formal commitment of water and a pledge for help in getting a delivery system of mains. But the Government has yet to produce one drop, or funds to dig a single trench, and for many, life...