20260701 Religious Life as Prophetic Life Form
RELIGIOUS LIFE AS PROPHETIC LIFE FORM Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Sandra Schneiders, long time professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, must be included in her list of "prophetic' women religious that have emerged in our time: "In the last few years, we have all witnessed or participated in the emergence into national and worldwide eminence of a fairly large number of extraordinary women religious, a few now deceased but most neither dead nor even retired. By way of highly selective instances who enjoy wide name recognition: Holy Cross Sister Madeleva Wolff, poet and pioneer in higher education of women; Sister Wendy Beckett, an astounding and internationally renowned art critic; Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service highly influential in national politics; Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity* who is one of the publicly recognized hundred most influential figures in national health care re...