"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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

A recent article in Global Sisters Report detailed one teacher’s efforts to use Joan Chittister’s columns on the Beatitudes while in her high school religion classes. The students devised…

After the Plenary Council in Australia failed to pass two propositions related to the role of women in the Church, Joan Chittister—who has been on a speaking tour in the country for several weeks—…