In the April issue of US Catholic, I wrote about Oprah turning her attention to the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist on her show this February. It doesn't seem that Oprah really knew what she was getting into-a wider debate about religious life.
When the Vatican investigation of U.S. women religious is discussed, two questions are asked repeatedly:
1) If religious have nothing to hide, why would they object to being investigated by the Vatican?
Not many people run a half marathon and fewer still these days join a religious order. Alicia Torres, 24, is doing both.
She ran the Chicago half-marathon--that's 13.1 miles--on September 13 with the goal of making a dent in her college loans. She has to be debt free before taking a vow of poverty.
It must be hard being a Sister in America. You spend a century creating a hospital system from scratch and educating generations of Catholic children of every race and class on a shoestring. Not only are you barely paid for your efforts, you occupy a decidedly second-class position on the Catholic totem pole.
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