Sister Joan Chittister — Obedience and Action

On Being : Sister Joan Chittister — Obedience and Action Image
On Being : Sister Joan Chittister — Obedience and Action Image

Sister Joan Chittister — Obedience and Action

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In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, Joan Chittister would be the first female bishop.