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...Sunday's mass, he spoke about Johnson's discernment. "Basically her stance is this: Lord I am going to do whatever you want me to do - it's up to you, I'm open," Deutsch told his congregation. "You want me to be a religious sister, I will do that because I have been discerning that. You want me to be married, I will do that because I have also been discerning a call to the married state. I will do whatever you want. I'm open...
...When Sister Sarah Roy steps outside, she knows that strangers will treat her differently. Her black veil and conservative dark jumper stand out against the hip hugger jeans and North Face jackets that are the norm on campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "I'm walking down the street and people just stare at me like I'm a freak," she says. "They're not doing it to be disrespectful -- you just don't see Catholic sisters anymore. It really catches people off guard...
Historically, the decision to become a nun was a relatively simple one to make. "If a woman felt that she wanted to be a nun, she would just go to her parish priest and see what he thought," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, a campus minister at the University of Illinois' St. John's Catholic Newman Center...
There's also a downloadable song of the month donated by a Christian artist, in response to the focus groups' revelation that "music was one of the highest ways to communicate with" young people, says vocation director Sister Julie Ann Sheahan. Thus the order's radio and TV ads feature a theme song based on a Franciscan hymn. The tune is also available on the website as a ringtone. Its title: Called...
Adams House will decline all requests to reserve common rooms during the upcoming weekend because students from its sister house at Yale will be occupying the space, according to Adams HoCo Co-Chair Andrew J. Bestwick...