A young lawyer and youth minister joins a dwindliing, maybe dying, religious community: the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston (CSJ) are mostly over 70 years of age; only seven are under 50. For now, she's tutoring immigrants in English, and she plans to assist them by returning to the practice of immigration law.
What motivates Deirdre Griffin? In this profile, it's a desire to be involved in "her causes", a generosity to the underprivileged, a sense of "vocation" -- but since it's filtered through the lens of the writer, one can't assume we have the whole picture. The writer doesn't mention the words "Jesus" or "Christ". It does, however, describe the young lady twice as a "feminist". Are socio-political categories the only ones a newspaper writer can understand? I have to hope that the gal who was the president of a college Catholic student group has a personal faith life and some sense of a personal relationship with Christ.
Are socio-political categories the only ones a newspaper writer can understand?
The Boston Globe? With the possible exception of the Vichy Catholic James Carroll, the answer would have to be , yes.