Maryknoll Sisters

  • Maryknoll Sisters on Leon, Nicaragua, 1981

    Talk by Maryknoll Sisters recorded during a June 1981 visit to Nicaragua by a study group of KPFK listeners. Two sisters, Julie Miller and Pat Murphy, talk about their work in Leon, Nicaragua. Background to the Maryknoll Sisters order (Catholic) is given and how they became involved in the Nicaraguan revolution, and how siding with…

  • Interview with Marjorie Melville / Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone

    Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone interview former nun and one of the Catsonville 9, Marjorie Melville, in WBAI’s studio on February 10, 1971. Melville and her husband wrote a book, “Whose Heavan, Whose Earth” (1971) which describes their experience with the Guatemalan revolutionaries. Mrs. Melville was recently released from jail (she and her husband were…

  • Father Gregory Chisholm : an interview.

    Talks about the surveillance of arrivals at the El Salvador airport, the four nuns killed by the national guard, and his own detention just prior to their murder.