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April 2015

April 30, 2015

Does Obama Admin haves issues with Catholic Nuns?

On it's face, the question sounds ridiculous until you consider this, and now this: Earlier...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

What Nuns Do on the Annunciation Feast

Our friends, the Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ have a lovely tradition on the vigil...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

No Nuns Stuck in Elevators!

A few months ago, I wrote about the Dominincan Nuns at Our Lady of the...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

A Chance to Make One More Charitable Donation before 2014 Ends!

On January 1st, Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception, OP will be pronouncing solemn...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Praying for those who pray for us…

As our friends in Summit are reminding us, Pope Francis says today, November 21, is...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

2 Late (as in New) Entries to the Vocation Post – UPDATED

Nothing is static. I recently posted my annual "Nun News Roundup" piece (which had helpful...

October 01, 2014

Nun News: Autumn Vocation Roundup 2014 – UPDATED

There has been "so much" Nun News this year that I have already posted not...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

A Joyful Community of Intercessors Needs a Bit More Space – UPDATED

All photos used with permission. In Rumer Godden's classic gem of a novel, In This...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Raffling off Magnificat’s Advent App! TWO WINNERS!

UPDATE: Magnificat was nice enough to send me a second gift app, so I was...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Cry Woof! Welcoming Will Duquette to Patheos

Image courtesy of shutterstock.com Will Duquette has been hanging around Patheos for a while, as...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

May is for Mary, Mothers, Rosaries and Gifts!

The header is true! May is the month for all of that; it's also the...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

“You will set the world on fire…” Catherine echoed in Pope Francis

"If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire" -...

December 2011

December 09, 2011

“A House of Prayer; a Temple of Intercession”

Would to God that . . . all men could know how very easy it...

October 2011

October 07, 2011

Dominicans, Lepanto and More

Kathryn Jean Lopez and I recently commiserated with each other about how life as a...

April 2011

April 01, 2011

Are you Happy?

When my Elder son was very small, and was trying to figure out facial expressions,...

March 2011

March 25, 2011

Srs. Mary Veronica and Mary Jacinta!

Icing on the cake for this great feastday of the world-saving "Yes", our dear friends...

March 20, 2011

When a Monastic Nun Dies…

Our friends the Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary...

February 2011

February 23, 2011

Nuns, Monks, Friars Linkfest! – UPDATED

It's unusual to be writing much about monks, nuns and friars in February, but for...

January 2011

January 16, 2011

The Rule of Augustine Retold

One more for Vocation Awareness Week: Longtime readers know how fond I am of the...

November 2010

November 18, 2010

Oprah to revisit Sisters of Mary

The Dominican Sisters of Mary will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday,...

October 2010

October 23, 2010

"Recognized as a House of Prayer"

Earlier this month, Sr. Mary Catharine of Jesus, OP shared some wonderful insights into the...

October 08, 2010

Unemployment Numbers & a Timely Meditation

The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren't they? A while back, I...

September 2010

September 22, 2010

Wondering about Ameridolotry, Krugman, Absorption…

My plan to work, work, work, today is being interrupted by a family situation that...

September 14, 2010

Basilica Santa Sabina and Saint Dominic

Okay, I'll be writing about Rome, and posting pictures for a while--my husband took over...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

The Force of Her Focus – UPDATED

Marks '10/Kris Snibble (Photosource) Readers may remember a post from the spring, featuring Mary Anne...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

Mary Anne Marks, Harvard ’10 -UPDATED

This is really charming, and comes our way thanks to reader Jenny, whose son graduated...

June 04, 2010

Summit says "Thank you"

Sr. Mary Catherine, OP in the renovated refectory I know many Anchoress readers kindly made...

May 2010

May 17, 2010

A Plethora of Nun Pictures – UPDATED

Suspecting that only Carolina Cannonball is more fixated than I on all things nun-ish, I...

May 13, 2010

Nun News: New Novice!

Our good friends, the Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey (who have added lovely lilac...

May 12, 2010

The New Celibates

How ironic that in a year where religious, and especially priestly, celibacy has been put...