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The Restless Flame: Daniel Lord, SJ: Thinking Big in a Parochial World! By Stephen A. Werner, Press, Press, Pull, 2021, ISBN 979-8-4764-7088-5, 354 pp., $17.00 (paper).
Just about a century ago, the prolific Jesuit pamphleteer and playwright Daniel Lord, SJ, published a book on Our Nuns, a collection of his articles that had been printed previously in the magazine The Queen's Work, a magazine he edited. At the time there were about 174 different orders working in the United States, and his book surveyed fifteen of them. But in those articles was demonstrated both a depth of curiosity and a certain level of expertise on how these women ran their orphan asylums or hospitals, what it was like to create and...