People love to love nuns. Why is it that nuns playing frisbee, or holding protest signs, or simply the imagery of a woman in a veil is so captivating to media consumers, even those who aren't religious?
This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with Sr. Simone Campbell, a well-recognized voice, organizer and leader for social and economic justice in the U.S.
Cinema tends to reduce female characters to stereotypes, and nuns are not exempt. While some recent films (and a TV show) have upended the stereotype, there are still nun stories we aren't telling.
Walking with two Presentation Sisters ministering months after Hurricane Katrina, NCR's Carol Zimmermann "was convinced the church here got it right about truly being present to those in need."
CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell is watching and waiting to see how Pope Leo XIV widens Francis' legacy of elevating women within the church.
"The women problem" in Laudato Si' is nothing new. The failure to centralize, regard and learn from women and their experiences abounds in Catholic theology and ecclesial realities. In the next decade, the church must fill this gap.
Theologian and ethicist Margaret Farley begins not by talking, but by listening, by offering her merciful attention and accompaniment as another human being begins to articulate their own experiences and troubles.
In the third conversation with Sr. Joan Chittister for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Chittister challenges us to build a "Beatitudes Movement" that brings people together in small communities of action, resistance and deep faith.
In this second conversation for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister dives into the next three Beatitudes, showing how they call us to radical compassion, unshakable justice and undivided hearts.
