A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura

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On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a rapidly dug grave in a field outdoor San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the United States-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin The united states. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and background.

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.

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