by Joshua J. McElwee
The final report of a controversial and unprecedented six-year Vatican investigation of tens of thousands of U.S. Catholic sisters takes a roundly positive, even laudatory, tone towards their life and work but also includes several couched but barbed criticisms of them.
by GSR Staff
"O Breath of God, breathe your energy and love into us and upon our earth. "
Dec. 16 the final two episodes of "The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns" airs on Lifetime. The back-to-back broadcast wraps up with the six young women visiting the Sisters of St. Joseph the Worker in Walton, Ky., and also reveals which of them decided to enter religious life for real, not just for reality TV.
GSR Today - A digest of sisters' hard work in some of the toughest conflicts of the day. This week, Ebola's legacy is expected to last at least another nine months; sisters, who were at the forefront of this issue, continue working against trafficking; and the Dominicans in Iraq report witness of the collapse of Christianity there.
by GSR Staff
"O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, fill us with wonder and delight."
by GSR Staff
The report of the apostolic visitation on women religious communities in the United States is expected to be released Dec. 16 at a press conference in Rome. GSR carries continuing coverage. Look for breaking news here tomorrow morning by NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua J. McElwee, and first catch up on the history and nuance of the visitation by going to our AV series page.
Today’s release of the final report on the apostolic visitation of U.S. sisters brings to a close a six-year process that initially shocked and angered many, but also unified women religious in the United States like never before. It is one of two separate investigations involving U.S. women religious.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - How do Presentation Sisters today carry on the mission begun decades ago by Nano Nagle?
by Mary Aquin O’Neill
Contributor
Read in the light of the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family, the story of the man born blind in the ninth chapter of John’s Gospel is a marvel. Read in light of the Gospel story, aspects of the Synod open up and reveal possibilities for development. Like the religious leaders of the Gospel, many of the Synod fathers are used to beginning with traditional beliefs, in light of which they judge experience.
Mary Aquin O’Neill is a Sister of Mercy who holds the doctorate in religion from Vanderbilt University. After many years of college teaching, she founded Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women and was its director from 1992 to 2009. Since the center closed in August of 2013, Sr. Aquin is in semi-retirement, writing as well as giving lectures and retreats.
