Review article

Apostolate of women religious in the United States of America. Differences in understanding the mission and activities before and after Vatican Council II.

Ana Thea Filipović orcid.org/0000-0002-0119-1940 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Jasna Krista Mijatović orcid.org/0000-0002-6505-7118 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb

Abstract

The first part of the article discusses the understanding and exercising the apostolate in women’s religious communities in the USA in relation to the ecclesiological framework, spiritua­ lity of the time and needs of society up to the Second Vatican Council.
In the second part of the article, on the basis of the same criteria, the authors investigate and present the main lines of changes in self­understanding of religious life and mission after the Second Vatican Council as well as the American nuns’ acti­vities in the spirit of the Gospel in post­modern society. The stu­dy draws on relevant literature and in the second part also on the results of empirical researches on the apostolate of women’s religious orders in the USA.

Keywords

women’s religious orders; Catholic Church in USA; apostolate; Second Vatican Council; social activity

Hrčak ID:

148830

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148830

Publication date:

30.11.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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