The mission of Assumption College for Sisters states that “through education and community,” the school “forms servant leaders who transform lives.”
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Posted inDispatches, Faith
A Monastic Christmas Fair: How laypeople in Spain are marketing monasteries to the modern world
The Christmas fair in Madrid was the work of Fundación Contemplare, a nonprofit set up to help Spain’s monasteries continue a legacy of gourmet baked goods and handmade candies but also, more importantly, to support contemplative life and reconnect monasteries with the world around them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: St. Katharine Drexel’s complicated record on race
In ‘Katherine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision,’ the historian Margaret McGuinness has performed another valuable service to American Catholic history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
When the Vatican investigated Margaret Farley for her book on Catholic sexual ethics
In 2012, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that ‘Just Love,’ by Margaret Farley, R.S.M., could not be used in Catholic classrooms. It was a different era in the church.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis invites contemplative nuns to monastery where Benedict XVI lived in retirement
Pope Francis has invited a community of nuns to move into the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, renewing the building’s purpose as home to cloistered women dedicated to supporting the pope’s ministry with their prayer.
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: Synod Mothers make their voices heard in Rome
When asked whether the women in the synod hall felt they were being heard, Sister Pat Murray replied as any tough nun might: “We have been well able to make our point and use our time and space well.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
‘Dead Man Walking’: An operatic exploration of Sister Helen Prejean’s death row ministry
“Dead Man Walking” is a deeply human story about truth, forgiveness and the possibility of redemption. It is a journey into which everyone—from the singers to the audience—is invited.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Hollywood isn’t always kind to nuns. ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s’ was an exception.
The caricatured or fetishized images of sisters we often see in movies are a far cry from the real sisters I, and probably you, have known.
Posted inFaith, Letters
Letter to the editor: Black women were excluded from religious orders. Catholics need to know this history.
A response by a historian to America’s recent coverage of the path to completion by the Sisters of Charity of New York notes shock and disappointment at the lack of reckoning with the impact of the longstanding anti-Black and anti-brown admissions policies and practices that most European and white American congregations employed.
Posted inFaith, News
Dodgers’ faith night ‘not enough’ to make up for honoring ‘drag queen nuns’, some Catholics and players say
In a May 25 video posted to Twitter, Bishop Robert Barron, a former LA auxiliary, said the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group.”