Spiritual leadership for challenging times
Subtitle: presidential addresses from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious
By: edited by Annmarie Sanders, IHM
Contributors: Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Maryknoll, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781626980662
Subjects: Leadership; Women in church work; Congresses; Monasticism and religious orders for women; Catholic Church; Christian leadership; Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States
Description: In April 2012 the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) received a notification from the Vatican charging the organization with doctrinal and pastoral errors that were "grave and a matter of serious concern." For many Americans, this was their first awareness of the LCWR, a canonically approved organization representing over 80 percent of women religious in the United States. One of the outcomes was an outpouring of support and solidarity with the sisters, an appreciation for their lives of selfless service, and evidence of a strong hunger for a type of spiritual leadership attuned to the signs of the times. This volume collects ten presidential addresses from the LCWR's annual assemblies. Beginning in 1977 with Sister Joan Chittister's reflections on the changing models of religious life, it concludes with Sister Pat Farrell's moving speech at the historic 2012 gathering, responding to the Vatican's notification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Annmarie Sanders, IHM; title: Introduction  -- Helen Maher Garvey, BVM; title: Making the future possible  -- Joan Chittister, OSB (1977); title: To speak the truth in love  -- M. Theresa Kane, RSM (1980); title: The woman's word of testimony  -- Margaret Cafferty, PBVM (1985); title: Consecrated for mission  -- Nadine Foley, OP (1989); title: Befriending the wind  -- Doris Gottemoeller, RSM (1994); title: "Lift up your voice with strength"  -- Nancy Schreck, OSF (1996); title: Tending the Holy through the power of sisterhood  -- Mary Ann Zollman, BVN (2003); title: Midwifing a vibrant future  -- Mary Whited, CPPS (2008); title: Called to hope as prophets, artists, healers, and lovers  -- Marlene Weisenbeck, FSPA (2010); title: Navigating the shifts  -- Pat Farrell, OSF (2012); title: Epilogue -- Janet Mock, CSJ.