nuns in print and film
Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006I read this news article by Catholic News Service and had to find out more about the Sisters of Selma. Below is some of the background which is taken directly from the film’s web site. Here is a list of the congregations who were the “Sisters of Selma”. Each link explains how that congregation’s sisters […]
to my UK friends
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Does anyone know if The Sunday Times article “Confessional Blogs of the Internet Nuns” was in the print edition of The Sunday Times (November 26, 2006)? If so, I’d love to get a copy of the article … I can’t find it here because the newsstands tell me that there are “distribution issues”. Please let […]
The Perfect Nun … a Busted Halo review of the book “The Tulip and the Pope”
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Note: the following is not written by me but is taken directly from Rochelle Shapiro’s review …
The Perfect Nun
The Tulip & the Pope
by Deborah Larsen (Vintage) 256 pages
Reviewed by Rochelle Shapiro
In high school my best friend, Cathy, who went to an all-girl’s Catholic school kept telling me, “The nuns say I have a […]
Another “Double Crossed” Review
Monday, October 30th, 2006Below is a review published in US Catholic (October 2006) by one of my nuns, Margaret Brennan, IHM. Margaret is a good friend of mine, a wonderful theologian, articulate writer and speaker, and a woman of wisdom and insight. Here’s what she has to say in US Catholic about the book Double Crossed:
Double Crossed
By Kenneth […]
The Demise of Religious Life??
Friday, September 15th, 2006As mentioned in earlier posts, I’m reading Kenneth Brigg’s book Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns. Here are a few more of my reflections …
The Preface and Introduction of Double Crossed mix lovely prose with hard numbers — the statistics that claim to show that religious life is dying out.
Clearly, a culture […]
