The Anchoress has some typically intelligent and fair comment on the upcoming renewal of women’s religious life in the USA here along with a good list of links and updates on comment. Max Lindemann writes eloquently on the whole business here. Kathy Schiffer looks back and explains teh devastating effect humanistic psychology had on Catholic religious orders in the 60s and 70s. Go here.

I can’t help comparing the visitation and planned reform of the religious orders with what took place in our seminaries. Read more.