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July 2012

July 21, 2012

Something Joyful

Since we do like our nun news around these parts, I posted this story of...

July 16, 2012

Three Nuns, Three Different Ways of Serving

The lovely and tireless Sr. Mary Catharine of The Dominican Nuns of Summit sent this...

July 11, 2012

Happy Feast of Saint Benedict – UPDATES

Happy Feast Day of Saint Benedict! Vision of Saint Benedict (c.1360). Giovanni del Biondo (fl.1356-1392)....

June 2012

June 15, 2012

If God wants it, nothing can stop it

So, our friends the Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ have welcomed a new postulant to...

June 15, 2012

“No one hates men! But…damn these men!” – UPDATED

On Facebook, Diane of Te-Deum blog embedded this interview between Christiane Amanpour and Sister Joan...

June 12, 2012

Nuns and Bishops and Popes, Oh My! – UPDATES

The sisters are all Joan of Arc and the Bishops are all Don Giovanni! Allow...

June 08, 2012

When Films Touch Real Life

Over at the Patheos Movie Club (you didn't know we had one of those?) and...

June 06, 2012

Does Mo Dowd think Celibacy = Pedophilia?

Zoran Karapancev / Courtesy of Shutterstock.com I hadn't read Mo Dowd's latest screed because I've...

May 2012

May 08, 2012

Another vowed Domincan nun! – UPDATE

Last December, I had the privilege of attending the first profession of Sister Mary Magdalene...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

LCWR and Rome: the Opera of Catholicism – UPDATED

Recently, while watching some Catholic sniping and squabbling amid these internet comboxes wherein I dwell...

April 25, 2012

NPR’s really good piece on the LCWR Story

Every time I think I've had it with NPR, they surprise me -- they pull...

April 19, 2012

LCWR, the SSPX and the Vatican; Fun Times in Catholicland UPDATED

Busy days here at Patheos and I am only now getting to a bunch of...

April 10, 2012

Priest Videos and Problems of Recommendation

I have received probably three dozen emails over the past two days tipping me off...

April 05, 2012

Nun Soap: “You don’t look 53!”

Had a doctor's appointment this afternoon and the intake nurse was surprised to learn I...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Best Rally Sign I’ve Yet Seen! UPDATES

Photo Credit: Tom Crowe Grabbed off of Facebook, the best picture I've yet seen of...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization

Hot off the cyber-presses! Notre Dame University's Institute for Catholic Living today launches a new...

January 14, 2012

God is Not Done with You

Deacon Greg's homily for this weekend is especially good, and powerfully useful, I think: In...

January 12, 2012

Why not a Religious Vocation “Mission”?

Over at Word on Fire Ministries, Rozann Carter notes a Mormon celebrity putting his career...

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...

December 04, 2011

Eve in Mary Reconciled as are we All – UPDATED

Eve and Mary by Sr. Grace Remington, O.C.S.O A couple of years ago I wrote...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Fulfilling God’s Longings for Us

We don't often picture God has having a longing for our sake; the image is...

November 28, 2011

Well, since they’re talking about habits…

Deacon Greg has a video and a link to a post from Msgr. Charles Pope...

November 22, 2011

Me, as a Nun, and New Cecilias! UPDATED

I have one of those very ordinary faces that are a dime-a-dozen in a crowd....

November 21, 2011

Bishopalooza! Great American Bishops -UPDATED

Recently the Gregorian Institute polled some Catholic bloggers and writers, asking them to name the...

November 21, 2011

Little Sisters with Big Grins

Deacon Greg Kandra recently highlighted a beautiful video of a Our Lady of the Stars,...

November 12, 2011

NY’s Tri-Diocesan Merger of Seminaries

Patheos' Future of Seminary Educationsymposium included some thoughts specific to Catholic Seminaries, but there was...

November 02, 2011

The Priest as Bridge and Balm – UPDATED

Over on the Dedicated-Catholic page of Patheos' symposium on the Future of Seminary Education, two...

November 01, 2011

O Saints: Teachers who Behold the Mystery -UPDATED

After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count,...

October 2011

October 30, 2011

An Hour with Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God, O.S.B.

Quite a journey, and a practical, one-on-one charism I really like:

October 27, 2011

A Catholic Seminarian Reflects UPDATED

Michael Duffy will be ordained a transitional deacon on December 8, in anticipation of his...