Charity Alive: Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Halifax, 1950-1980

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Charity Alive: Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Halifax, 1950-1980. By Sister Mary Olga McKenna. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 1998. Pp. xxvi, 376. $54.00.)

In her preface to Charity Alive, Mary Olga McKenna notes that her study continues from the period covered in an earlier work which recounted one hundred years of institutional expansion from the 1849 Halifax founding to 1949. McKenna's work focuses on the following thirty years: the renewal experience. While acknowledging the benefits of renewal to the sisters who remained in the community, Charity ...

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