by Kevin Banet | Apr 30, 2012 | Vocation news
Audra Turnbull is 23 and plans to enter religious life in a community in Monroe, MI. She finds the Catholic faith awkward — which really means awesome — in her vocabulary. “I’m writing this blog to look into the awkwardness, meaning awesomeness, that is...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 26, 2012 | Know who you are, News in general
The Chicago Tribune is following the journalistic herd in slamming the Vatican for its investigation into the LCWR and its members who dissent from Church doctrine. See Mary Schmich’s “Nuns Stunned by Vatican Scolding.” Here is our response to the...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 24, 2012 | News in general
Dr. Scott Hahn, Rev. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., and other great speakers on religious life addressed the annual meeting of the Institute on Religious Life in Mundelein, IL last week. The theme was “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts: The Sacred Liturgy as a...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 16, 2012 | Attracting vocations, Getting publicity
In case you missed it, here’s an insightful story in the National Catholic Register, “Sisters Go Online to Promote Vocations.” There are some good success stories here, and also one community’s story about difficulty in attracting vocations...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 5, 2012 | News in general
A very thorough article explaining how some religious communities are driving a wedge in the Church by not supporting Catholic teaching appeared in the March 27 National Catholic Register’s article, “Catholic Entities Undermine U.S. Bishops’...