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Just came across a new-to-me blog by Catholic Sister — Sister Helen Prejean: Talking about life, death, New Orleans and social justice. You can now find this blog regularly in my listing of Blogs by Catholic Nuns. 
Sister Helen is a member of the Congregation of Saint Joseph and has done a lot of work around the injustice of the Death Penalty and has worked with many people on death row.
Any other blogs that you are aware of that I can add to the list of blogs by Catholic nuns? My basic criterion is as follows:
- blogs by women religious and those women who are formally in the process of formation AND
- blogs which are currently active and not anonymous
Any that are listed that are no longer updated? Any links that are wonky?
While we are on the topic of soliciting feedback, anything you’d like to see more of on A Nun’s Life? topics? media (e.g. video, podcast, etc.)? guests?
Would appreciate your input!
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Last year I had the honor of playing the lead role in Villanova University’s production of Dead Man Walking, based on Sister Helen’s book. In the course of the production I had the great honor of meeting both Tim Robbins and Sister Helen. Sister Helen is such a beautiful woman, with a hearty laugh and a real spark to her. I’ve been following her blog for some time now and it is a wonderful addition to your blog list. Thanks for adding it
Sister J – Thanks for this addition. I did not know of it. And David K, I would like to shake your hand and, through a few short degrees of separation, shake those of Tim Robbins and Sister Helen Prejean. Dead Man Walking is one of the prodictions I can see again and again and always find new topics for spiritual meditation. I have not read the book but wouldn’t THAT be a agreat book club book, Sister Julie?!
And Sister Hildegard, that was a wonderful story about Sr Sandra. It makes me think of Fulton Sheen’s decision toward the end of his life that he no longer wanted to do closed retreats he wanted his retreats for priests to be open to sisters, brothers, the laity. How blessed we are as Catholics to have such amazing thinkers and lovers of Jesus and how amazing that Jesus’ ministry is so richly complex that such brilliant and different thinkers as Bl Oscar Romero, Sr Sandra Schneiders and Archbishop Sheen are all true Catholic disciples of Jesus. I am finding that I need each of them to help me understand Jesus and the Catholic Church. Sister Julie, thank you for providing a community that has room for all of them. Jean
i met sr. helen, as well, some years back at a local prisoner rehabilitation program fundraiser. i also saw her from afar at the school of the americas protest…two years ago? maybe three. memory fails. amazing woman.
I’ve seen her from a distance a couple times and met her once at a Conference. I was the dorky fan who got in the book autograph line just to shake her hand and tell her that I think she is amazing. Later after the Conference I saw here in the airport but she looked so relaxed and probably glad to be “off-duty” that I couldn’t bear to go up and chat with her. She has a warmth and light about her that makes you feel good just being in her presence. That’s a real gift. It make me think that that is how people must have felt when they were near Jesus.
Thanks for the link to Sr. Sandra’s interview. Will look at it tomorrow or Monday. I’ve seen Sr. Helen two times. One time was at a talk with many other people. The second time was at a dinner where I got to meet her personally. She is really a great and amazing lady. She’s got one heck of a sense of humor as well.
A friend of mine, who is now in her early 70s, attended a school called Cathedral High School back in the 50s. It was the high school affiliated with St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. Long story short, every year the students had a retreat. Bishop Sheen was the presenter. She said his retreats were amazing,
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Hello Sister, this is an other blog by a catholic sister, she is Sister Concepción pddm from Spain, her blog is: http://conchipddm.blogspot.com/... Its in spanish but really nice for those who understand the language.
Kisses.