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Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B., has been called “the maverick Benedictine nun who dares speak her mind to her church” (religious news.com). The best-selling author and internationally renowned speaker is known for her views on justice, peace, human rights, women’s issues and contemporary spirituality in the church and in society. Chittister has described herself as holding a position of query, of theological and scriptural commitment and search. To her new intern Breanna Mekuly ’12, Chittister is one of the wise women she first learned of in her theology classes at St. Norbert, women who taught her to be proud of herself as both a woman and a Catholic. Mekuly determined to seek out Chittister as part of her continuing quest for a new thinking community. This is Mekuly’s account of that journey.

Publication Date

Summer 7-5-2016

Keywords

Office of Communications, Chittister, Benedictine spirituality, feminist theology, vocation

Summer 2016: The Quest for Community Takes a Young Grad Student on a Journey to Sister Joan

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