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News from Pauline Books and Media and the Daughters of St. Paul

"Pioneers! O [Dearest] Pioneers!"

I’ve had reason this week to glance over my shoulder at the Daughters’ 80-year history in the U.S. Amaestra of the unexpected, Sister Concetta Belleggia left us somewhat suddenly at the age of 95. Since her arrival from Italy in 1949, only seventeen years after our U.S. founding, she had been a teacher, sister, mentor, mother, and friend to generations of us. Mother Paula Cordero and our first sisters had set down roots in New York in 1932, but regardless of the progress that the community had made, Sr. Concetta found a lot of building and building up to do. She didn’t quit until last Friday....


The Sisters and the Bishops, Updated

I got a request from the newly minted Pulitzer winning columnist of the Chicago Tribune for a bit of a response to the news that a bishop was being appointed to oversee/facilitate a kind of renewal of one of the official representative organizations of women religious (sisters) for the United States, the LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious). The Daughters of St. Paul belong to this organization, as well as to the other, also official, organization of sisters. The news got many people talking: some triumphantly ("Finally they are calling those wacky nuns into line!"); others in hurt ("Don't they see the good we are so committed to?"); others in anger ("Those patriarchal male hierarchs have to do something to hold onto their power, and putting women down is the easiest way to do it.") ...


A Field Trip for the School of the Master

When people other than the cynics of the world hear “trade show,” they usually don’t think “Catholic Church.”

Now, if they’re Daughters of St. Paul, the religious venue is pretty much all they think of. The Religious Booksellers Trade Exhibit (RBTE) and the Catholic Marketing Network (CMN) yearly see Pauline participation. Secular/religious shows like the centuries-old Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany draw Pauline women and men internationally. Add to them Catholic conferences that host exhibitions on the scale of trade shows, like the annual Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, CA, with its 40,000 participants from all over the world, plus scores of smaller diocesan or regional gatherings that include exhibitors, and it’s no wonder “trade show” means something to us other than the usual commercial enterprise....