I grew up in a very strict, fundamentalist Christian home, the kind where the man’s word was law, and women, not just children, were not allowed a voice. My...
Women religious
Read stories about religious women working in powerful ways to fulfill their Catholic calling, such as studying cosmology and fighting for migrant rights.
At age 54, when I had been a Catholic sister for 38 years, I met Courtney, a trans woman. This was, at that point in my life, a new experience. I immediately...
Have you ever wondered why a religious sister chose to join the Dominicans instead of the Poor Clares? Or why a priest entered a religious order instead of...
Like Dorothy, the sisters first arrived here via tornado. And in another Oz parallel, their presence led the people of Pueblo de Palmas to discover that the...
It is no secret that religious life is at a crossroads. As the church celebrates the Year of Consecrated Life, the number of men and women in religious orders...
By Sister Simone Campbell, S.S.S. (HarperOne, 2014) Sister of Social Service Simone Campbell offers an exhilarating narrative of her remarkable life journey to...
The tough and tender mercies of women religious transform the most remote and desolate corners of poverty, misery, and heartache. It takes nerves of steel to...
This Ugandan sister is a surrogate mom to the “Lost Girls” of her nation, restoring their sense of dignity after their years in a living nightmare. When Sister...
In honor of National Catholic Sisters Week—and may I just point out that the church celebrated an entire Year of the Priest in 2009—I would like to debunk the...
Sister Nancy Sylvester has grown accustomed to the fact that life often takes unexpected turns. When Sylvester entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate...
