A nun’s ability to find humor rather than outrage, to remain humble while believing oneself to be in possession of the truth, is something we can use more of in today’s church.
Religious Life
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Religious superiors admit denial and slowness to act against abuse claims
A statement issued by the Women’s International Union of Superiors General concerning the upcoming Vatican summit on sexual abuse lamented “the misplaced loyalty, errors in judgment, slowness to act, denial and at times, cover-up.”
Posted inFaith, News
Fifty years later, Catholic Church reckons again with unbelief
In late May, scholars from a range of disciplines will gather at Rome’s Gregorian University to discuss the results of the research initiative, called “Understanding Unbelief,” which for the past two years has been mapping the rise and nature of non-religion across the world.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why is a 1960s film about a nun still controversial?
“La Religieuse” has been assailed as an attack on the church itself. And by people who had not even seen the film.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What life is like outside the cloister
Judith Valente explores how the Rule of Benedict offers wisdom for those of us outside the cloister.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Lessons from John Allen Chau (and Francis Xavier) for Catholic missions today
How should Christians interpret and implement the Gospel mandate to bring the good news to all peoples and nations?
Posted inFaith, Features
#ChurchToo: How can we prevent the abuse of women by the clergy?
Is the Catholic Church doing enough to prevent the abuse of women by clergy?
Posted inFaith, News
Trappist Father Keating, leading figure in centering prayer, dies at 95
A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 3 at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start in the 1970s. He died Oct. 25 at the abbey.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
What makes a good deacon?
A man pursuing the diaconate must see his desire to serve as a true vocation.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The sex abuse scandal and the debasing of Catholic language
Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.