Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Tracy Samantha Schmidt, a graduate from Dominican University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, recently got a job with Time Magazine and decided to do some articles for the magazine based upon interviews she had done as a journalism student. The series of articles talks about how young women are changing the face of sisterhood in general, with other articles focused on St. John’s Catholic Newman Center and some women there. One of them is about a young lady at St. John’s, Katharine Johnson, who is now discerning between religious and married life. Another is about another young woman at the Center, Sr. Sarah, who has already made that choice. A third article is surprisingly about the resources available for discerning a vocation to the religious life.

The articles are very well done, and other than for the precision that she mistakenly equates the term nun with religious sister, it is surprising to see articles sympathetic to Catholic life in a magazine like Time. This is especially so for as aspect of Catholic life that is so antithetical to our modern wordly view. One might almost suspect that the author herself might be contemplating such a vocation. I plan to say an Ave for her any way.