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Title: BEHOLD THE WOMEN by Daniel T. Paulos, Felicitas Corrigan, DANIEL THOMAS PAULOS ISBN: 0-9627900-4-4 Publisher: Saint Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A Book Of Simple Beauty, For Remembering Gentler Times
Comment: "Behold The Women," by Daniel Thomas Paulos, is a lovely book, filled with nostalgic photographs of numerous orders of Catholic Nuns, from yesteryear. These beautifully displayed pictures are joined with, simple, moving, naratives, written by some well-known individuals,a nd others, who grew up in a gentler era, where nuns abounded in Catholic schools throughout the world! The point of this book was not to create a "scientific," approach, to remember the history of religious life, but to join these wonderful pictures, with equally simple, direct, and personal rememberances of the leadership these great women have provided us all for decades!

Rating: 2
Summary: Amateurish but well intentioned
Comment: It was develped from a good premise and veered into a companion to the school sisters of Christian charity guidebook. Another more professional volume of this nature is necessary and one would hope Mr.. Paulos will then be a contributor rather then "author".

Rating: 5
Summary: It is a humble book, with the simplicity of truth.
Comment: "BEHOLD THE WOMEN" Reviewed by Sister Mary Thomas Noble, O.P.

Fling the pages wide open and let out the fresh air! Here is a new view of nuns to overturn the sterotypes we have been fed for too long. The nuns of the persecution complex, those of the psychological suffocation, the ones with a political agenda in the world of woman's rights and feminism - with these we are sated.

In "BEHOLD THE WOMEN," Dan Paulos gives us not "nuns," but THE nun, that unique, irreplaceable woman that he, or you, or I, once knew, were touched by, and can never forget.

It is a collection piece. The 217 photographs were selected from the more than 400 submitted; the written testimonies represent writers from a broad spectrum of life and levels of society. Through them all runs the feel of genuineness. These nuns are real people.

Some of the photographs have the quality of portraits; others were probably snapped by a Brownie. Some of the tributes come from professional writers; others are are totally simple in style.

For those who have been fortunate enough to know nuns "in the flesh," this book is an affirmation. In the face of the current discussion in the media about nuns and their relevance, in the face, even, of the self-questioning that nuns can sometimes be driven to by modern pressures, in the face of our own aching nostalgia for the values nuns stood for 'when we were very young,' the book is a message of life and hope for the future.

It takes an artist to see things whole. He needs the eyes of a child because children see things in the round, and the eyes of an artist, because artists pursue the details of things relentlessly. In this fine book, Dan Paulos has achieved the perfect blend. He portrays nuns with the huge simplicity and the keen attention to detail that mark the true artist.

In his own right, the compiler is well known for his silhouettes in black and white, having been introduced to the art of paper-cutting by the celebrated American silhouettist, the late Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, OP. It is tempting to see a connection between his mastery of the silhouette, with its delicate tracery and filigree finesse, and the effect he has succeeded in bringing off in this book.

"It is a simple book," he admits. "It is a reminder that 'once upon a time' there were silent women who were, in reality, heroines without even knowing it. It is to all of these unsung activists that we owe our eternal gratitude."

It is indeed a simple book, with the all-inclusive simplcity of truth!