Vision of Change, Voices of Challenge

About the Book

The story of how one religious community, the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, renewed and re-imaged itself during the post-Vatican II decades (1958-1990). The history documents how the community’s leaders—Sisters Alice Scheirberl, Mary Margaret Kraus and Joan Chittister—inspired and helped shape a new vision of monastic life. The Erie Benedictines who lived through those years hold the memory with reverence. Others who read the book can understand and share with them a journey from medieval living to modernity, a spiritual awakening of depth and new Gospel possibility.

About the Author

Sister Stephanie Campbell, a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, has written two other histories of women religious communities. Prior to Vision of Change, Voices of Challenge she authored the histories of the Benedictine Sisters of Elizabeth, New Jersey and of the Benedictine Sisters of Ridgely, Maryland. Sister Stephanie was the editor of As We Seek God published by Cistercian Studies, co- authored the book Climb Along the Cutting Edge, a study of renewal within communities of US Benedictine women, published by Paulist Press in 1977, and has published numerous articles. Sister Stephanie holds an M.A. in speech and drama from the Catholic University of America.