by John Freund, CM | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
St. Theresa and Mother Theresa! Imagine what they did through prayer and in the slums. Welcome to Imagine Sisters! Have you ever met a religious sister? They tend to be the happiest women on Earth. They pray, they sacrifice their lives in love and service to those in...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Robert Saler writes of the questions raised by a “…  recent post in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which a professor blames social media for the fact that, in his view, current generations of college students share overly intimate details of their...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
What would Jesus do? What Downton Abbey Taught Me About Finger Pointing Amy Henry writes… “At this house we’re big Downton Abbey fans.   Big . We watched season one four times, then cheated and had season two sent from the UK before the US release. We...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
James Martin offers a tongue in cheek version of this newly discovered not so social gospel. The Lazy Paralytic The Very Poorly Prepared Crowd The Rich and Therefore Blessed Young Man The Lazy Paralytic 1. When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it was...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
“She said something that I immediately wrote down and knew that I had to write a blog entry about it. “It’s definitely a hard thing for people to understand. Mission work or religious life. We have extremely low and challenging moments, but...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ten myths about religious life . . . and the facts from the 2009 NRVC/CARA Study that dispel them Myth #1: No one is entering religious life anymore. Fact: More than 70 percent of all religious communities (both men’s and women’s) report having new members in...