’The air was still. The silence felt like a cloak enfolding the room.‘

The Sisters of Charity of New York is on a path to completion after numbers have dwindled in recent years. But the sisters are facing trying times with joy.

I am usually not one to call for big changes or support radical ideas. If the church has worked this way for 2,000 years, I used to think, who are we to change it now?

In mid-century America, nuns and sisters were writing poems, and publishing them in the nation’s finest publications.

Sister Boniface reminds me of so many great women’s religious that I have had the good fortune of knowing—enormously competent, of deep integrity and undaunted in their commitment to helping people.

Sister Jean discusses Loyola’s magical Final Four run, why she loves being around young people and where she believes the Catholic Church is headed.