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From Where I Stand 12/13/2018 NCR.

From Where I Stand 09/20/2018 NCR.

From Where I Stand 09/05/2018 NCR.

Young people are leading the way against US gun violence. From Where I Stand 3/19/2018 NCR.

From Where I Stand, March 10, 2018, NCR.

From Where I Stand, 1/18/2018.

Joan Chittister was one of the contributors to the fall 2017 issue of Oneing, a publication of the Center for Action and Contemplation.

Presented by Joan Chittister to the Fourth World Congress of Benedictine Oblates, Rome, November 4—10, 2017.
Easter Sunday The old news about Easter is that it is about resurrection. The new news may be that it is not so much about the resurrection of Jesus as it is about our own.
During his speech to Congress on September 24, 2015, Pope Francis singled out four great Americans: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day.
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Joan Chittister that appeared in the March,1989 issue of SALT, a magazine for justice-hungry Christians.
Anthony DeMello, the Jesuit spiritual teacher and psychotherapist, died suddenly of a heart attack on June 2nd in 1987 at the age of 56.
Joan Chittister was one of nearly a hundred prominent men and women from every religious tradition and region of the world to share a favorite prayer and offer their own reflections on its mean

Almost 50 years ago, Joan Chittister wrote an article for America magazine calling for inclusive language in the church and listing the positive effects such a change would have for the church its

Call to Leadership
by Joan Chittister, OSB Stanford University–Baccalaureate Address
June 16, 2012
Congratulations, class of 2012.