by Anne E. Patrick
Contributor
The fact that so many holy founders have been celebrated by Catholics over the centuries suggests that some women religious who aspire to prophecy today may also be called to tasks of institutional creation and construction, tasks we might refer to “founding” and “re-founding,” and in some cases to institution maintenance as well.
Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, was William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and the author of Conscience and Calling: Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women’s Church Vocations. She was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a founding vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology.
by GSR Staff
"The mysteries rang true in daily life as bead by bead she prayed for a broken world."
Chaldean religious find peace and hope in Chicago - “We are who we are today because of our love for Christ," Fr. Fawaz Kako says. "In the midst of our chaos, he creates order.” Kako is is part of the ethnic Chaldean community of Catholics who have moved to the United States from the Middle East, where Christians have been a minority and persecuted for centuries. Chicago has two Chaldean Catholic parishes, where he, Fr. Sanharib Youkhana and Sr. Margaret Homa carry out their work ministering to about 7,000 people.
GSR Today - It is the U.S. federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life and ministry to fighting for the marginalized and poor people. So this week’s blog starts with the marginalized – in this case, unaccompanied minors attempting to immigrate to the United States – and ends with the poor, and a new way to identify them.
Catholic News Service
Book review - Born a Philadelphia heiress, St. Katharine Drexel divested herself of wealth and privilege to found the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, which has a particular mission of serving African-Americans and Native Americans. The two books complement each other and it is a happy coincidence that both would be published around the same time. Each author brings particular strengths to her task.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - How can I move ahead in life when I feel stuck in the past, like Lot's Wife? In this Random Nun Clip, we take a question from a listener who feels like Lot's Wife, looking back fondly at the past and then getting stuck like a pillar of salt, unable to move ahead.
Bethlehem is the most advanced Palestinian city in terms of dealing with the physically and mentally disabled and the most needy of the population, said Argentine Sr. Maria Pia, who greeted a group of the bishops at Hogar Nino Dios. The home is run by her order, the Sisters of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word.
GSR Today - Could a little indie movie about a young woman’s life-changing journey before she becomes a nun win an Academy Award this year? It came one step closer on Thursday. Read on.
by Susan Rose Francois
NCR Contributor
I will admit to a smile whenever I see that one of my Horizons columns has been posted online, although the reason for my smile may not be the one you expect. I smile because of the tagline for the column on the Global Sisters Report website: “Young sisters speak.” Only in religious life would a 42-year-old woman be counted among the “young.”
