T. M. McCoog

A Foreign and Wicked Institution?

History & Biography

“Rene Kollar focuses on congregations of religious women in this clear, concise examination of popular anti-Catholicism. He deftly interweaves their confessions with Catholic attempts to explain the true nature of religious life, and to discredit their opponents. Demands that society correct these atrocities through abolition or control threatened not only the sisterhoods themselves, but the Roman Church. In separate but interrelated chapters, Kollar considers the legends, the stories, the lies and the works of Roman and Anglican sisterhoods. Neither blind to faults nor ignorant of abuses, Kollar writes with an eye on the present in which a way of life is again judged by the faults of a few.”