by Rachel Myslivy
Contributor
Over the course of two years, I had the great pleasure of interviewing more than 40 Catholic sisters on environmental issues. Interviews with these “green sisters” radically changed my conception of religious life and broadened my own understandings of environmental issues, peace, justice and Catholic theology.
Rachel Myslivy holds a master's degree in Religious Studies and a graduate certificate in Environmental Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion and ecology as seen in religious communities in Kansas. She is working to expand the scope of the Green Sisters in Kansas Oral History Project and eventually publish the collected stories.
GSR Today - Back on May 7, Sr. Jan Cebula and Tracy Abeln, who are based at the Kansas City office of National Catholic Reporter, were guests on A Nun's Life Ministry's "In Good Faith" podcast. Take a listen as we describe GSR when it was only two weeks old.
by GSR Staff
"We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own."
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
The work of novitiate is that of soul searching. It requires digging deep, meeting yourself and God head on, facing your true self, learning about what religious life is, nurturing a deeper prayer life, learning to live intentionally and with constant discernment, and prayerfully considering if the call to live in this way with a specific congregation in their manner of being is right for you. Suffice it to say, you don’t get weekends off.
by GSR Staff
"May there be a little light in our darkness, a little faith in our doubt, a little joy in our sorrow, a little life in our dying, a little hope in our sadness, a little courage in our fear and a little slow in our hurry."
Film review - In this striking and often beautiful film, Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski has given us much for reflection and much to savor. The independent drama, “Ida,” shot in black and white, follows the life and decisions of a young Polish novice living in a cloister in the early 1960s.
by Mary John Mananzan
Contributor
At the core of conflicts between different individuals or different groups is difference. There is something threatening or at least disconcerting about the unknown. We are somehow not at ease with the strange, with the unfamiliar. We lose our sense of security when faced with the other. But we must make a real effort to try to understand each other.
Mary John Mananzan is a Missionary Benedictine sister from the Philippines. A noted theologian and author, she has served as president of St. Scholastica's College, as prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Manila Priory, and as national chairperson of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines. She is a political and feminist activist who helped develop an Asian feminist theology of liberation, and works with a number of organizations that deal with gender issues and women's concerns.
Sisters of Lortetto community in Marion County, Ky., are not calling outright victory that a natural gas pipeline no long will be traversing their land, which includes the oldest operating monestary in the U.S., Gethsemani, former home of Thomas Merton. Simply, energy companies destroy Earth.
