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Catherine McAuley, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Quaker connection

by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015

Kerry O’Regan, South Australia Regional Meeting The “About the Author” section of Tracy Bourne’s 2014 Backhouse Lecture tells us that, in her childhood, Tracy had been “impressed by the dedication to social justice and religious mystery of the Sisters of Mercy”. I too...

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