Speeches
Joan Chittister spoke at Saint Ignatius Parish in Brisbane, Australia, and The Women's Night of Spirituality, an event that the parish has hosted for seventeen years.
Joan Chittister offered a presentation on the kind of prophetic witness needed today at Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney.
Presented by Joan Chittister to the Fourth World Congress of Benedictine Oblates, Rome, November 4—10, 2017.
For a new interpretation of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, listen to Joan Chittister on Catholic Women Preach.
Sr. Joan Chittister speaks about the interior life.
In this video produced by the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Sister Joan speaks of hope and says, “The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us.
Sister Joan Chittister addressed the 2015 annual meeting of the Erie Community Foundation. At the end of her address, she was awarded the Edward C. Doll Community Service Award.
In this short, succinct video message, produced by Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Joan Chittister teaches that “contemplation is immersion in the God who created the world for all of us" Using messag
Inter-religious dialogue is a top priority for Joan Chittister as she explains in this brief video recorded for the Charter of Compassion.
Joan Chittister addresses the question of whether religions of the world can work together to reduce violent conflict and build peaceful, pluralistic societies during the first summit on Religion,
Joan Chittister talks about new ideas in faith and contemporary science that are challenging the traditional hierarchical view of women's place and role in society.
Joan Chittister tells about her deep struggle as a young nun to reconcile her dream of studying at America's premier creative writing program to become a fiction writer -- a dream that seemed withi
Joan Chittister asks us to consider the benefits of struggle and darkness in life and how they can develop our soul and redefine our faith.
Joan Chittister points out that struggle can lead to either despair or hope and how the spiritual task of life is to cultivate a hope that “rides on the decision to believe that God stands on this