He told her she was a chosen soul from God. On Palm Sunday she stayed after everyone got their palm branches and on that night she ran away to follow Saint Francis. He had her cut her hair and dressed her in a black tunic and a thick black veil. Clare was put in the convent of the Benedictine nuns and was almost pulled out by her father because he really wanted her to get married to continue their family lineage.
But finally I was convinced that God called me.” On March 24, 1931 Agnes took her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a sister of Loreto. “She felt inspired to take her name in religious life from a French nun called Thérèse Martin, who prayed for missionaries and their success and died of tuberculosis at the early age
At the age of seven Hildegard was placed under the tutelage of Jutta, the Abbess at Disibodenberg Monastery. At this convent she was given opportune to be educated and also gain positions in leadership, which she did after the death of her long personal advisor Jutta, the one person she confined in about her visions that started at the early age of three. After taking Jutta's place as magistra, Hildegard waited till l the later age of forty two to reveal her gift of pain to the population around her. It was from this expression of God’s voice that the “Blessed Hildegard” went on to live up to her name and achieve the goals she didn’t imaging
When de Erauso was four years old, her parents placed her in a Dominican convent. We know from other historical accounts that they did the same with three of her sisters and that consigning female children to become future nuns was a not uncommon way of displaying loyalty to the Catholic Church. At the age of fifteen, ran away from the convent, disguised herself as a man, and took a number of jobs as a page before she left for South America (2). During her time in the New World, de Erauso, still disguised as a man, served as a soldier in Peru and Chile, fighting for the Spanish cause. De Erauso came of age during Spain’s golden age and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller’s daughter born in Lourdes, France. She was said to have had witnessed the virgin Mary appearing to her, which resulted in her becoming a saint and Lourdes becoming a sacred place. According to the story, when Bernadette, who could not read or write and who barely passed her religious education classes, asked the lady her name, she responded, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” The faithful believed her to be the Virgin Mary, and she is said to have appeared to Bernadette 18 times. The Roman Catholic Church recognized Lourdes as a holy place in 1862 and Bernadette’s visions of Mary in a cave as authentic. Saint Bernadette was canonized in 1933, as patron of the sick, and Lourdes emerged as one of the premier pilgrimage sites in the world.
He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path” (Daily Catholic Quote from Saint Katharine Drexel). She embodied this quote by giving her life to helping the less fortunate including founding the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Black and Native American peoples, opening the first mission schools for Indians, and donating millions of dollars to these oppressed groups of people. Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1858. Her mother, Hannah, died five weeks after her birth.
Congressman Leo Ryan led a fact-finding mission to Jonestown to investigate allegations of human rights abuses. Ryan's delegation included relatives of Temple members, Don Harris, an NBC network news reporter, an NBC cameraman and reporters for various newspapers. The group arrived in Georgetown on November 15. They spent three days interviewing inhabitants about the conditions and mainstream of members of the sect. Initially, Ryan and his group were kept out of the camp, where it was learned that its members were practicing for religious songs and dances.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza “If they are right—and they certainly have the text on their side—that G*d is male, Lord, King, and Father because it is revealed in Scripture, then only elite males, but not wo/men and non-elite men, are made in the image of G*d”( Norton), Elizabeth Fiorenza stated in an interview conducted at Villanova University. This is one of the foundational beliefs of the widely recognized and respected feminist theologian. She currently serves as Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her writings and theologies are Christian based although she identifies with the Catholic religion. She has collected several awards and recognitions during her lifetime including: becoming the first woman president
Kambili’s life changes after she is beaten by Eugene and then leaves her house to live with Eugene’s sister Ifeoma, who encourages her children to share their thoughts and feelings. While living with Aunty Ifeoma, Kambili realized that she could defy Eugene’s strict views of Catholicism, and adopt the more liberal form of Catholicism practiced by Aunty Ifeoma – one that can still recognize the traditions of the Igbo people –the culture her grandfather, Papa Nnukwu. The Religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu, Eugene, and Father Amadi show the different religious ideologies of three different generations of Nigerian people. The religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu portray the beliefs of colonial Nigerians. Papa Nnukwu, Kambili’s grandfather, was the head of the whole Achike family.
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film, written and directed by Peter Mullan, about four teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums (also known as 'Magdalene Laundries'), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene Asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation, or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. [2] Former Magdalene inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. [3] However, since the publication of the Irish government's McAleese Report on the Magdalene Laundries, the depiction of the abuse in the film has been questioned by the blogger Brendan O'Neill.