Transformed: One Congregation's Response to the Second Vatican Council and the Calls of the World

In the post-Vatican II decades of the 1960s and 1970s, the Society of the

Sacred Heart ended 150 years of living in semi-cloistered, school-centered

communities, freeing its members to engage in a myriad of social justice

initiatives beyond their traditional works. It became obvious in recent

years that unless the stories of these RSCJ pioneers were collected and

told, the history of those initiatives would be lost. Highlighted in these

pages is a representative sample of the creative and courage...