If I ever questioned this blog, today convinced me of its value. A reporter from a small local newspaper contacted me last Friday. He wanted to do an article about recruiting sisters. I explained that we don’t “recruit.” We invite women to share in our life, our prayer, our ministry. He wanted to talk about diminishing numbers of sisters – He might have called us nuns! I explained that there are over 13,000 Sisters of St. Joseph worldwide and about 7,000 in the United States. That didn’t make it into the article.
The article came out this morning and the front page headline was, “Habit forming, Sisters using Websites to reach youth.” We never mentioned habits, said very little about websites, and there were comments attributed to me that I never said. I cringed! There is a lot of good information in the article but so much mis-information as well. Talking with reporters like this demands patience and persistence.
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Joanne,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on starting your blog. I look forward to reading further and to the comments that will be posted.
Joanne, nice to hear from you...I will certainly add a link to my blog...thanks for letting me know about yours!
ReplyDeleteJoanne,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blog. Your story on the reporter certainly hit home as I had a similar experience. I do believe that the majority of people consider all sisters as nuns which is certainly not true. Keep up the good work.
Russ
Joanne, You did good! Nice blog! In our Diocese we are doing "called by name" and I am speaking in one of our parishes about being a Sister. Your blog comes handy to tell others about it.
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