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In A Radical Faith, journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into such a women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who was once this woman within the dirt? What led her to this vicious death to this point from home? Maura was once raised in a tight-knit Irish immigrant community in Queens, New York, all through World War II. She became a missionary as a means to a life outdoor her small, orderly world and by the 1970s was once organizing and marching for liberation alongside the poor of Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Maura’s story offers a window into the evolution of postwar Catholicism: from an inward-taking a look, protective institution within the 1950s to a community of people grappling with what it meant to live with purpose in a shockingly violent world. At its heart, A Radical Faith is an intimate portrait of one woman’s spiritual and political transformation and her courageous devotion to justice.