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Joan Chittister was quoted in a column in Global Sisters Report last week.

From Where I Stand. January 19, 2023

In Joan Chittister’s NCR online piece, “Behold I am doing something new … maybe,” Sister Joan muses on the increasing secularization of Christmas, and what even this may have to teach Christians to

Everyone is defeated some time. Many then simply quit the fray. But the really strong, the really committed, do not. They decide whether or not the mountain is worth the climb.

Tom Roberts, writer and long-time editor of the National Catholic Reporter, wrote an extended profile and obituary for Mary Lou Kownacki, which was published in the NCR online.

For over twenty years, Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, edited and compiled the weekly Vision and Viewpoint newsletter, as part of her ministry as director of Benetvision.

For over twenty years, Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, served as director of Benetvision.

Christmas is a strange season. When you’re a child, it is a season of presents. When you’re young, it’s a season of parties.

Here's what's worrying me: When I wrote the "Prayer for Leadership" years ago, I was clearly quite immune to the idea that we might already be ru

At St. James Episcopal Church in New York City, Joan Chittister presented on the call to prophetic spirituality. This event was part of the historic Manhattan church’s Stillman Lecture Series.

Joan Chittister's column in the National Catholic Reporter deals with the leadership we need today as a nation during a time of great division and polarization.

Joan Chittister discussed the roots of synodality and the synodal process’s implications for the future of the Church with the Sisters and Oblates of Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, in Erie, PA, at

An article which appeared in Herald Malaysia cited Joan Chittister’s speaking tour of Australia—and the crowds of hundreds that came to hear her—as an example of a “parallel Chur

Somewhere along the line, the woman I once adored left me.