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Loving God, You who dwell in our hearts,
make for us a cave there
in which to hear your voice more distinctly,
feel your care more tenderly,
understand your will more clearly,

The first time I went to Rome, experienced the intrigues of the Curia, saw the politics of the system, watched the maneuverings of national clerical alliances, and realized how helpless women

To close ourselves off from the wisdom of the world around us in the name of God is a kind of spiritual arrogance exceeded by little else in the human lexicon of errors.

The Jefferson Educational Society of Erie, Pennsylvania, has announced that this fall, it will host a conversation between Joan Chittister and Liz Cheney, former chair of the House Repub

In most monasteries, as in most marriages, we celebrate our silver and golden anniversaries of final profession.

One thing I know: The words I will write here are either both too late — or will be forever alive.

Joan Chittister's latest column in the National Catholic Reporter is in memory of her friend, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who died on April 4 this year.

As a Sufi story teaches, "There are those in winter who, calling themselves religious, say, 'I shall not wear warm clothes.

Every afternoon, as I sit in my upstairs office, I hear the old monastery bells begin to ring in the once Benedictine church that then adjoined this inner-city monastery.

Bishop Tom Gumbleton, the "soul of the peace movement," died at the age of 94 on April 4,

The Feast of the Annunciation is observed today, since the traditional feast date (March 25th) fell in Holy Week this year. 

“The tomb was empty,” the Scriptures say, metaphorically perhaps but pointedly, nevertheless.

Joan Chittister will present at the seventh annual conference of L.A. Sisters Aging Well, on Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Pacific Time.

Everyone who has ever lived, who will ever live, will someday undergo a Holy Saturday of their own.

The feast of the transitus of Saint Benedict is celebrated on March 21.