We are called to persevere, to continue both study and discussion on the role of women in society and the Church.
Welcome to the first issue of The MAST Journal to be published online! After thirty years of publishing in the traditional format of a printed hard copy, we are reaching out to you, our readers, from this new platform. Yes, the articles can be downloaded and printed so you can have a hard copy in your hands. But there are some changes. No longer is a subscription required. Thanks to the Institute Leadership Team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, this publication, along with our thirty-year archive, is now an offering to the whole Mercy readership and the public in cyberspace.
It is not my intention to eulogize Eloise; rather, I propose to give you some insight into this vibrant, committed, passionate Sister of Mercy.
The Church’s treatment of women contrasts strongly with Catherine McAuley’s understanding and practice of leadership and leadership development.
Not long ago, Cardinal Walter Kasper told the international Catholic journal Communio that the diaconal ordination of women was theologically possible and pastorally sensible.
We will focus on the organic development of the role of instituted lector to mine a theology of ministry of all baptized believers and the centrality of the Word of God in the mission of the Church.
Sisters of Mercy and their colleagues and friends around the world owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Sister Mary C. Sullivan, RSM. Our gratitude depends on much more than...
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In this essay I wish to explore Catherine McAuley's concepts of comforting and animating, by which I believe she defined both her own unique contribution to the founding of the...
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Somehow we know, beyond all doubt, that the eager enkindler of our personal and corporate vocation as Sisters of Mercy is, even now, steadily at work among our dry bones...
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The "visitation" of the sick poor was one of the three central elements in Catherine McAuley's vision of the merciful work to which she and, later, her companions in the...
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