Nun News Network International Logo by reader Brian J Really, I don’t mean to keep writing so much about sisters, but they all seem to have a lot going on. And I don’t mean just making snownuns (h/t reader DeLynn): Source Sadly, Sr. Mary Snowden was “knocked down by a loud & drunken bunch of young men at 10.30pm Our friend Deacon Greg has a picture of a Snow Franciscan Friar that’s pretty cool, too. Meanwhile our friends the Dominican... Read more
Out of the UK, via Tom Elia, a PSA that mercifully does not preach: Read more
Just finished watching the Oprah Winfrey show featuring the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and I thought it was really excellent. I missed the very beginning, so I don’t know if she did the Geisha feature, as well, but the segment with the sisters was really, very impressive. The sisters were well-spoken, intelligent, funny, good-natured and extremely forthright about their lives, and both Lisa Ling and Winfrey seemed to genuinely appreciate their comments on life, materialism, vows,... Read more
I will be out for most of the day, running errands, and won’t be back to writing until the afternoon, but a few links to keep you amused: Picking up on yesterday’s piece on the Sisters of Mary visiting Oprah, and the cheapening and distortion of our sexual understanding, a couple things. First, the sisters unveiled their new web site design, today, in honor of their 13th anniversary, so check be sure to check it out, and also, read what... Read more
Novices in chapel, observed by Oprah’s crew The Dominican Sisters of Mary will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show tomorrow, and the gals were kind enough to send along an exclusive picture from the crew’s visit to their Ann Arbor Motherhouse. They have more pictures here. A peek at her teaser for the Tuesday show (H/T the Deac) indicates that the Sisters will share the hour with a look at the “the word’s only Western Geisha.” One serves God and... Read more
On Candlemas Julie at Happy Catholic asked for prayers for a young pregnant woman who was being pressured to abort, although her own desire was to have the baby and allow it to be adopted. Today Julie has the glad news Praise God. A corner has been turned. My friend courageously went to speak to the people applying pressure. Despite their anger she presented the truth in love. By the next morning hearts had softened somewhat and there was a... Read more
Whenever I watch or read Justice Thomas, I always come away liking him even more. He is authentic, down-to-earth and credible and human. I almost never watch longer online videos because I have such a deplorable attention span, but this Q&A between him and a bunch of law students was worth watching, all 90 minutes of it. Thomas has a lot of really good things to say about the self-destructive nature of cynicism (about an hour and 6 minutes in),... Read more
I happened to be surfing the web trying to track down a priest friend when I found a site (I forget which) that opened up playing music from this album. Normally, I hate when a site opens with music; but this was a mesmerizing sound. So, of course, off I ran to You Tube: Lovely, ancient sounds. You can hear samples of the album here, also. While I’m talking about stuff I like, I ordered these bookplates and these sticky... Read more
Sisters after making Perpetual Profession I was busy with other work this morning, and so Thomas Peters beat me to it, and he has exclusive pics, darn him! Our friends the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist -about whom I have written many times, most recently in this vocations update will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, (tentatively scheduled for February 9). Apparently Oprah’s crew was in Ann Arbor yesterday, filming on the premises and talking to... Read more
“Civility is not a sign of weakness” declares President Obama. Well, we know that. When President Bush was civil to his opposition, some of us knew that did not mean he was weak. Actually, though, his lecturing on civility might carry more weight if the same president saying this did not use the same language to describe Republicans as he uses for terrorists: “Obama used the same language toward Republicans as he did toward extremists in the Muslim world in... Read more
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