7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Clare Halpine

We need to cultivate good habits. Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2015

Father's Day with the Sisters

by Stephen Schmalhofer

We are relearning that marriage is not optional. The evidence started piling up in 1965 with Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the breakdown of the African-American family. In 2012, Charles Murray took us on a walk through Fishtown where we met a white (often non-)working class. In 2014, Kevin . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2015

How TV Execs Realized Nuns Were Bae

by Ashley Crouch

Nuns are having a moment in the media. Lifetime television recently conducted extensive studies to identify the unmet desires of its viewers and found that what young women want is—more Christian programming. The network responded by creating the reality series The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns to follow five surprisingly relatable young women—Stacey, Claire, Christie, Eseni, and Francesca—in their discernment to be Catholic Carmelite nuns. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2015

Why Nuns Should Wear Habits

by Matthew Schmitz

Should we stress or suppress what makes us distinctive? Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2014

The Nuns’ Story

by M. S. Leach

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara. Harvard University Press, 751 pages, $35. This is a book to be reckoned with. After all the objections to the author’s agenda and technique have been registered, the fact remains that Jo Ann Kay McNamara, former nun and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1997

Mystery and Desire

by Gregory Wolfe

Ron Hanen’s Mariette in Ecstasy is a haunting, enigmatic novel that is almost impossible to categorize, and it represents a radical departure from Hansen’s previous work. His first two novels, Desperadoes and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992