"For people who have been following the changing patterns of religious life this book is an invaluable comparative resource. It critically reviews French and Spanish sources from Europe and Latin America, sources not available to us. The thesis is splendid as well as provocative. rt sheds new right on the American experience of religious congregations and does it with an informed theological perspective. For people trying to understand what liberation theology has to offer in the American perspective this book is essential reading." -Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College
"Alejandro Cussiánovich's book is one of the most useful books I have read to point out the road religious must travel of they are to be true in their true radicality of the gospel. Poverty, Chastity, Obedience are seen in their true gospel setting as truly subversive of the existing
structures of oppression. North American religious will see a dynamic challenge to their own living out of their vocation.” -President, conference of Religious Superiors of Men
" Religious Life and the poor is a quite competent, authoritative, and up-to-date reappraisal of the meaning of the religious rife in right of liberation theology. Its message is disturbing to me-something about which I know I have to do some more thinking. The book is well written, for sure, and one which I feel sure that all religious ought at least to read and think about.,' -Michael D. Meilach, O.F.M., Editor, The Cord