WASHINGTON — What started out as a blog at a time when few people knew about blogs and hardly anyone was familiar with Twitter is a living and growing ministry run by two women religious who are Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Sisters Julie Vieira and Maxine Kollasch oversee their website “A […]
Manaolana | Priesthood calling: Different paths, one burning desire, as vocations are discerned
Father Joseph Cazenavette, right, and other clergymen lay their hands on men during their ordination Mass at St. Dominic’s Church in Washington May 23. Statistics for this year’s ordination class show that the median age of the men is 32 and a Catholic education stands out as a strong factor in their background. (CNS photo/Bob […]
‘I love my job,’ says woman whose life’s work inspired the film ‘Gimme Shelter’
Kathy DiFiore, on whom the movie “Gimme Shelter” is based, poses with stars of the movie James Earl Jones, Vanessa Hudgens and director-writer Ronald Krauss. The movie tells the powerful story of a teenager faced with desperate choices when she finds herself pregnant and homeless in New Jersey and how meeting people who cared changes […]
She picked a co-star bigger then Elvis
Benedictine Mother Dolores Hart talks with Catholic News Service about her life as an actress and religious June 6 in Washington. Inset, Dolores Hart and Elvis Presley star in the 1957 movie “Loving You.” (CNS photos/Nancy Phelan Wiechec, inset courtesy of Ignatius Press) Five decades after her last movie, actress-turned-Benedictine nun Mother Dolores Hart is […]