My 82-year-old spiritual director, Sr. Connie Kramer, had an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of a butterfly. Her spiritual guidance was present until the end. Grief calls us to not fear death, but to befriend it.
"The women problem" in Laudato Si' is nothing new. The failure to centralize, regard and learn from women and their experiences abounds in Catholic theology and ecclesial realities. In the next decade, the church must fill this gap.
Theologian and ethicist Margaret Farley begins not by talking, but by listening, by offering her merciful attention and accompaniment as another human being begins to articulate their own experiences and troubles.
In the third conversation with Sr. Joan Chittister for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Chittister challenges us to build a "Beatitudes Movement" that brings people together in small communities of action, resistance and deep faith.
In this second conversation for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister dives into the next three Beatitudes, showing how they call us to radical compassion, unshakable justice and undivided hearts.
While the pope is acting on his desire to include women in administrative positions in the church, he seems to have turned a deaf ear to calls for women in ministry. The stumbling block seems to be his view of women.
In a decades-old letter, Mother Teresa provides a definition of giving that is as simple as Jesus' teaching about the poor widow's contribution: a gift from abundance does not have the same meaning as a gift with a sacrifice.
