Why they stay(ed)
Women religious and the apostolic visitation
Aug. 17, 2009
By Sr. Sandra M. Schneiders
Published in the National Catholic ReporterTwo sets of questions concerning U.S. women religious are roiling the waters in and outside the church today: 1) Why are religious disturbed about the apostolic visitation? 2) What is the real ( Read more... )

A few of the last minutes of conversation over at Dan and Amy's has been rattling around in my head for the last few days. I don't remember how either point came up, whether they actually flowed from the conversation at that point, or whether they were the sort of things that came from some new thought or free association that popped into someone' ( Read more... )

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Slept for about five hours and then couldn't sleep any more. I've been up for a few, now, mostly reading in the sixth volume of Merton's journals, Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom. I've been poking through it for about a month now, off and on.


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Had a more-than-pleasant dinner out at Louise's with Meg, which we had visited back in March. Lots of catch-up, because we've been particularly unlucky in trying to catch one another: her relationship with Brian, my job stuff. She even insisted on treating me, but made no bones about the fact that she firmly intended to cash in once I landed a ( Read more... )

Thomas Merton died 40 years ago today, electrocuted by the faulty wiring of his floor fan as he stepped out of his shower at a world-wide conference of monks in Bangkok. The National Catholic Reporter has an article commemorating Merton, which in a Left kind of way seems to magnify the tour Merton made at the end of his life, where he, as one of ( Read more... )

I was glad to see the new superior explicitly address the issue of troublemakers simplistically accusing the Jesuits of being a subversive group. That's been another one of those capitulations to our culture's political Left-and-Right polarity that has no place in the Church, whether in the hierarchy or in the laity.


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I just finished writing up my notes and lesson plan for today's session of Introduction to Theology. For today they read the second half of Book VIII of The Confessions of Augustine: the conversion scene. Lots to talk about regarding the will, psychology in general, the interaction of grace and nature, and so forth ( Read more... )

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