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The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. A few years earlier, in 1993, an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their Magdalen convent to a real estate developer. The remains of 155 inmates, buried in unmarked graves on the property, were exhumed, cremated, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. This triggered a public scandal in Ireland and since then the Magdalen laundries have become an important issue in Irish culture, especially with the 2002 release of the film \"The Magdalene Sisters.\".

By highlighting the intersection of clergy, elites, and outcast groups,Working in the Vineyard of the Lordilluminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Italy. Lance Lazar's work represents a new look at popular devotion throughout Early Modern Italy and its distillation in confraternal piety. Lazar's research sheds new light on the sixteenth-century revolution in charity and poor relief, particularly the aggressive new charity focusing on marginalized groups such as prostitutes and Jews, who were among the earliest foci of Jesuit-inspired intervention. The author also recovers women's roles in reform, as recipients, administrators, and benefactors. Working in the Vineyard of the Lordrepresents the first assessment of an entire confraternal network affiliated with a single religious order in the Early Modern period. It also reshapes views of the Jesuits and their ministries by reaffirming the prominence of Jesuit-sponsored lay initiatives, and places the earliest Jesuit confraternities in the context of religious reform, voluntary devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity across Early Modern Europe.

Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Their narratives include one teenager's experience in a Good Shepherd training school in Canada; another story of a child who was born in a Canadian Good Shepherd laundry; and three accounts of adolescent girls held in Good Shepherd Magdalene laundries in Ireland and Australia. In these institutions, women and girls became a coerced workforce. Hard, unpaid and relentless physical toil, isolation, enforced silence, and prayer constituted the nuns' strategy for converting their \"fallen\" charges into the Christian image of pure womanhood. Within this regime, girls and women suffered physical, psychological, and emotional abuse.While intimately capturing the dark and enduring after-effects of ill-treatment, the stories recounted in Shaped by Silence also describe survivors' efforts to heal and rebuild their lives. This important book shines a light on a pervasive and systemic pattern of cruelty and exploitation. It reveals the unwarranted confinement of generations of girls and women in Good Shepherd institutions around the world and constitutes a call for full acknowledgement of their suffering.

SISTER SOLEDAD Perpignan. a Filipino Good Shepherd sister and a cofounder of the Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women (TW-MAE-W), is inviting participation in a united Campaign Against Military Prostitution (CAMP International). Perpignan lives in Manila, where she edits Balm, a journal on development in Asia.

THE PRIEST in the title is me. The prostitute was Beverly. Beverly died seven years ago. She is buried in an unmarked grave. She was only 23 when she died. She spent too many of those few years either desperately sick or locked away from society. I guess I really want this to be her obituary, a tribute to one of the most important people in my life, one of my greatest teachers.

Prostitutes need and deserve respect and a chance to live. Unconditional love for the sinner was Christ's greatest challenge.

Taylor's Mercy Center, a project of the Bangkok Diocese, is a hospice for AIDS patients and HIV-positive sex workers. Thailand is projected to have 1 million AIDS cases by the year 2000, and the sex trade is partly to blame.

The Genesis House was founded in 1984 by Edwina Gateley to serve women who need counseling, job referrals, AIDS education and advice on drug-treatment programs. Genesis House is profiled, and its success stories are discussed.

In Southeast Asia, three Christian women have created model programs to help liberate prostitutes and keep young women out of the sex industry. Carnes discusses the widespread problem of sexual slavery in Asia and what is being done about it.