"Dearest Robert, Thank you so much for the biography of Joan Chittister, which has just arrived," art historian and hermit Sister Wendy Beckett wrote in a letter to Robert Ellsberg, the editor-in-…
Sep 19, 2022 - General
"Now is not the time to ignore religious life or to speak of it as something from another age. Now is the time to renew it with vigor," writes Joan Chittister in her latest column in the …
Sep 19, 2022 - General
On Sunday, September 18, Joan Chittister was the speaker at an event coordinated by St. Joseph University Parish’s Feminist Theology Book Club and the University at Buffalo Newman Center. About…
Sep 19, 2022 -
The second Joan Chittister Writer-in-Residence for 2022 has concluded her month-long residency in Erie. Ailie Margot, a doctoral student at Villanova University, used this time to work on her…
Aug 29, 2022 - General
Joan Chittister’s speech at the Chautauqua Institution on 8/19/2022 was covered in depth by the Chautauqua Daily newspaper last week. To read the piece, which details Sister Joan’s call…
Aug 22, 2022 -
"The trouble with today's world is that it acts as if there were only one kind of love. And so, we are inclined to overlook the others. Whether we know it or not, that can leave a lot of life very…
Aug 22, 2022 - General
One week after the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York experienced the brutal attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, they hosted Joan Chittister as the featured speaker in the Hall of…