New Vatican religious leader to US sisters: 'Keep hope'
Q and A: The new secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Religious also said the church should not exclude anyone.
Sisters' Stories
Vatican denies rift over handling of US sisters
NCR Today: The Vatican press office issued a statement Tuesday saying recent remarks by a Vatican official do not indicate a split among Vatican offices.
LCWR president talks church authority, dialogue
Q and A: Obeying church authority involves listening to God from many sources, says the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
'Ultimate obedience' to God, sister tells religious heads
Speaking to global women religious, a theologian says they owe "ultimate obedience" to God, founded in the needs of the poor.
Religious life calls Air Force vet who once produced nuclear weapons
Salesian Sr. Jennifer Kane is a living conversion story, who has gone, she said, from "bombs to Bibles."
A 16-year military veteran who at one time was a missile systems engineer working on intercontinental nuclear weapons, Kane is preparing to make her first profession of vows with the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in August.
How does someone make the conversion?
"By the grace of God, that's the only thing I can tell you," Kane told the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the diocese of Rochester. She said her vocational path "is long and it is crazy."
Global sisters explore models of effective leadership
Mercy Sister Mary Patricia Garvin opened day three of a global gathering of women religious leaders here exploring the gathering’s theme of effective service leadership.
In a talk entitled “Graced Companionship: A Metaphor for Religious Leadership Today,” Garvin used Jesus at the primary model for leadership. She called him a graced companion “par excellance!”
Servant, feminine leadership focus of global sisters' gathering
Sisters' Meeting: How should a Catholic leader use power? Should they ever admit weakness? And what role can feminine imagery play in such considerations?
Pope Francis to meet privately with international sisters
Sisters from around the world are gathered in Rome and say a meeting scheduled with Pope Francis is a "sign of hope."
'Nuns on the Bus' will hit the road for immigration reform
The "Nuns on the Bus" are revving up their engines for another national campaign, this time for social justice along the country's Southern border to push Congress to pass immigration reform.
LCWR: Simply a group of 'leftist' nuns?
Is LCWR properly described simply as a “leftist group of US nuns”? Is this the impression we are to be left with after decades of its work? Is this what LCWR means to the church and wider US society?
What has caused this simplistic impression?
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In This Issue
June 7-20, 2013
- Pope spotlights social teaching with blunt calls for ethical economy
- We face clear moral choices in priorities of our federal budget
- Mother Tekla: the most powerful woman in Rome
- [Print Edition Only] Special Section: Ministries PREVIEW
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