I’ve always wanted to give something to the sisters, and wish I had been able to give “The Bells of St. Mary’s.”
Women Religious
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Sister Helen Prejean’s life on death row
Lest the reader assume that Sister Prejean’s work against the death penalty, is the sum total of her story, she spends the final pages of her afterword calling out the places where she sees continued injustices, particularly in the treatment of women and L.G.B.T. people in the church.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic nuns to Trump: stop using ‘divisive and polarizing rhetoric’
“We implore you to never use language that disrespects, dehumanizes or demonizes others,” delegates at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious annual assembly wrote in a letter to be sent to President Trump.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Religious orders owning slaves isn’t new—black Catholics have emphasized this history for years
Black Catholics have been at the forefront of the push to get the Vatican to confront the church’s racist past and present.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The radical Benedictine sister who fought for Catalan independence
The tumult in Catalonia continues. Many Catalans wonder what the future holds for their community. Among them is a rabble-rousing Benedictine nun, Sister Teresa Forcades, one of the most recognizable voices within Catalonia’s independence movement.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
More women have been appointed to the Roman Curia. Could this signal new leadership opportunities?
“We have to admit that things move very slowly in the church,” Sharon Holland, I.H.M., told America, “But this is a piece of really good news.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why I gave up my job at NASA to become a nun
I have learned that belief is not unique to those who consider themselves religious.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis names seven women to previously all-male congregation
Pope Francis named six superiors of women’s religious orders, a consecrated laywoman and the superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers to be full members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Nun warns Central American migrants: Travel through Mexico is dangerous
Sister Munoz said she does her best to inform migrants of the risks and realities on the road. She also tries to disabuse shelter dwellers of any erroneous ideas—such as the existence of immigration documents for them—and does not sugarcoat her answers.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
When Millennials move in with Nuns
Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.