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June, 2007
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Pioneer Spirit
Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth

By Mary Ellen Doyle
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. xvi, 286. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Mary Ellen Doyle's Pioneer Spirit: Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth adds to a literature that highlights the role of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns in building religion and nation. Set within the context of frontier Kentucky, this biography of the foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth illuminates the intersection between overarching historical events and personal spiritual conviction. 1
      Spalding's work embraced the years 1813 to 1858, a time when the country confronted the challenges of territorial expansion, economic instability, rising immigration, vicious nativism, and widespread slavery. Kentucky proved to be influenced by all those elements, as were Mother Catherine and her congregation. In addition, the practice of Catholicism in Kentucky, as Spalding experienced it, underscored the struggles of a frontier church overseen in the main by imperious and abrasive foreign-born clerics, who showed few qualms about exploiting the sisters laboring in poverty at mission outposts. . . .
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