The Mighty Macs is based on the incredible true story of the 1971–72 Immaculata College basketball team that started in obscurity but became the original Cinderella story in women’s basketball. This team of pioneers went from barely making the inaugural tournament to the first dynasty in their game. And Coach Cathy Rush, the woman who was ahead of her time, became immortalized when she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The film stars Carla Gugino as Cathy Rush; David Boreanaz as her husband, NBA referee Ed Rush; Marley Shelton as Sister Sunday; and Academy Award and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn as Mother St. John. The film was written, directed, and produced by Tim Chambers.
For more information on the film, click here
This event is part of the Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America lecture series and gallery exhibit. A full listing of events is as follows. For more information, click on the event name.
Friday, September 2, 2011–Saturday, December 31, 2011
Ongoing Exhibit at the South Bend Center for History: Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
Monday, September 12, 2011
Lecture and Book Signing: Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author and advocate against the death penalty
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Lecture: Corita Breaking (All) the Rules
Barbara M. Loste, Eastern Washington University
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Mighty Macs
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Lecture: The Future of Religious Life
Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M., Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley at Santa Clara
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Lecture: Sisters, Saints, and Citizens: Canonization in America
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Lecture: Long and Short Perspectives: A Twenty-First Century Historian Looks at Medieval Women and Religion
Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University
Thursday, November 3, 2011
American Catholic Studies Seminar: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic Sisterhoods after WWII
Shannen Dee Williams, Rutgers University
Commentator: Diane Batts Morrow; University of Georgia, Athens
Friday, November 4, 2011
Cushwa Center Lecture: The Experience of the Oblate Sisters of Providence During the Civil War
Diane Batts Morrow; University of Georgia, Athens
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Seminar in American Religion: Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of the French Empire
Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University
Commentators: Angelyn Dries, O.S.F., Saint Louis University; Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Screening With Panel Discussion: Band of Sisters
Mary Fishman ’82, producer/director of Band of Sisters
This series is a project of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. It is sponsored by:
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
Office of the President
Alliance for Catholic Education
DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts
Department of American Studies
Department of History
Office of Campus Ministry
Center for Social Concerns
Center for Spirituality, Saint Mary’s College
South Bend Center for History
For additional information, please see the Center for History website.