Monday, August 6, 2012

Catholic Theology Inspires LCWR Keynote Speaker

The following article by Alice Popovici appeared in ncronline.org on 8/6/12.

Photo of Barbara Marx Hubbard was taken from her website, barbaramarxhubbard.com

Barbara Marx Hubbard, an evolutionary thinker who is to speak this week before the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, is not Catholic or part of any mainstream religion. But she says she has faith in the future.

She will bring this message of hope to LCWR when she delivers the keynote address at the organization’s annual meeting Tuesday through Friday in St. Louis. The audience is likely to still be reeling from the criticism in a Vatican assessment that has shaken communities of sisters throughout the country.

“It’s a message of hope, of cooperation and alignment,” Hubbard said of the ideas she will explore in her speech. “How can we align that impulse to the deeper impulse of Christ in evolution, of God in evolution?”  READ MORE


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