Conscience and Calling

Anne E. Patrick, SNJM is William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. She is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a founding vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology. Her writings on religious, ethical, and literary topics have appeared in many books and journals, and she is the author of Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology and Women, Conscience, and the Creative Process.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. "His Dogs More Than Us": Virtue in Situations of Conflict Between Women Religious and Their Ecclesiastical Employers. 2. Women and Church Authority: A Map of Responses to Injustice3. A Ministry of Justice: The 25-Year Pilgrimage of the National Assembly of Women Religious (NAWR/NARW)4. "Framework for Love": Toward a Renewed Understanding of Vocation5. Vocation in a Transformed Social ContextSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

A great, great many stories need to be told about both vowed and non-vowed women if we are to articulate Francis' 'theology of women'. Patrick's work offers several such stories and, I hope, will spark interest and courage in writing more; her work deserves good and careful readings across the Church.