"Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns argues that debates among U.S. and Central American Catholics over the direction of the Catholic Church shaped Ronald Reagan's policy toward Central America, with conservative Catholics shaping Reagan's policy and liberal Catholics protesting against it"
Introduction : Catholic Divisions, U.S.-Central America Policy, and the Cold War -- From Senator McCarthy's Darlings to Marxist Maryknollers -- Religious or Political Activists for Nicaragua? -- Subversives in El Salvador -- U.S. Guns Kill U.S. Nuns -- Reagan and the White House…
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of US foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan Administration. She challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the …
"Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns argues that debates among U.S. and Central American Catholics over the direction of the Catholic Church shaped Ronald Reagan's policy toward Central America, with conservative Catholics shaping Reagan's policy and liberal Catholics protesting against it…