Sr. Maxine Kollasch co-founded A Nuns Life Ministry, a vibrant online community where Catholic sisters engage with people worldwide around faith, vocation and finding joy in everyday life. Founded on the Internet in 2006 with Sr. Julie Vieira, the ministry is present online and in many social media.
A Nun’s Life Ministry helps people discover and grow in their vocation by engaging questions about God, faith and religious life.
The ministry is partially funded by a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
Catholic Sisters Week is an annual event that shines a spotlight on women religious, raising awareness of their charisms and engagement in their ministries. It is an effort of Communicators for Women Religious.
National Religious Vocation Conference is an organization of vocation ministers of both women and men religious institutes. Its goal is to help women and men discern a religious vocation, to assess candidates interested in becoming Catholic sisters, brothers and priests, and to welcome new members to religious life.
International Union of Superiors General (UISG) is a worldwide, canonically approved organization of superiors general of institutes of Catholic women religious. UISG and the Union of Superior Generals (men) also share a website Vidimus Dominum.
Talitha Kum is an international network of women religious against human trafficking. Its goals include prevention, protection and assistance, awareness raising and denouncement of human trafficking.
Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) is comprised of the national associations of women religious from nine African nations: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Republic of Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Zambia.
April 23, 2014
From a Nun's Life podcasts - Maryknoll Sr. Bernadette Lynch ministered for many years in Peru, El Salvador and Guatemala and has worked with families affected by HIV/AIDS. She is also the subject of the classic vocations book, Bernie Becomes a Nun (1956).
April 23, 2014
It's a simple story. Some would say “simplistic.” But it didn't feel like that to me the night it happened. I arrived at my destination in Australia on the last flight of the day. The program wouldn't start until late the next afternoon so, travel worn as I was, I wasn't really worried about either the land travel to come or my lodgings. After all, the sisters who were hosting the workshop would meet me at the airport. I would be in bed somewhere within an hour.
April 23, 2014
In a country effectively at war, incongruities about matters of peace and war are revealing. Just days before the beginning of Holy Week, I heard an anti-war song – let’s call it an anti-war ballad with rap-like energy – playing on loudspeakers in a courtyard at a Catholic radio station.