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…
Aug 01, 2022 -
Amanda Bolaños, the first Joan Chittister Writer-in-Residence of the 2022 season, completed her residency at the end of July. She spent her month at Mount Saint Benedict writing about Dorothy Day…
Aug 01, 2022 - General
“You’d never pick this gentle 86-year-old as one of the most outspoken critics of the Catholic Church, in particular its treatment of women,” says Waleed Aly, the television host who recently…
Jul 21, 2022 - General
In her latest column in the National Catholic Reporter, Sister Joan Chittister asks the questions: "How does a country become a "community"? What's the glue? And what do we need to do…