The Modern Nun
Catholic Sisters who entered prior to the Vatican II Council in the 1960s and during the renewal phase of the early 1970s have been witnesses to tremendous changes in Community customs, dress, and ministerial focuses. This exhibit focuses on the Sisters of Charity Federation Sisters who discuss these changing times in-depth or serve as the embodiment of what it means to be a Modern Nun.
The gallery below houses additional oral histories from other Modern Nuns, including Sister Maryland Anderson of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, who discusses receiving "a little later call from the Lord" and speaks with a novice who also entered later in life. Sister Susan Wood of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth describes what it was like to enter a Community just after the Vatican II Council and the changes that brought to the Church from a theologian's point of view.
