Quiero ser protagonista de mi vida: I want to be the main actor in my own life

Pursuit of the principle of social justice after Vatican II took the form, for many of the nuns, of what they called inserción: involvement in the world, taking seriously the moral imperatives arising from the bond of common humanity. This process itself, in a reversal of that affecting the Thai factory workers, led to their redefining of what they understood as a good life. Central to this redefinition was a profound shift in their understanding of the relationship between the religious and the secular, brought about by a deeper engagement with social justice as human rights. In the process, the