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Heard on Campus: Sister Simone Campbell at the Sister Joan Chittister Symposium

Sister Simone Campbell is the executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace that educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation. Credit: Jill Shockey, Penn State University Libraries / Penn StateCreative Commons

"What I realized is the contemporary questions of our time deal with the toxicity of racism and the toxicity of pollution of our Earth, and as Pope Francis says, they are not two crises. They are a single crisis of exploitation, where we can exploit each other, we can exploit our Earth, and we take that as business as usual."

– Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, religious leader, attorney, poet and coordinator of Nuns on the Bus, speaking Wednesday (Oct. 14) at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center to open the Sister Joan Chittister Symposium: Ancient Traditions, Contemporary Questions.

The symposium, hosted by the University Libraries' Eberly Family Special Collections Library, which houses the Joan D. Chittister Archive, examines the writings of Chittister, a Penn State distinguished alumna, author of more than 50 books and Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania. She also is a founding member and co-chair of The Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organization of the United Nations.

Chittister is an outspoken advocate of justice, peace and equality — especially for women all over the world — and has been considered one of America’s visionary spiritual voices for more than 30 years. She will speak at noon Thursday (Oct. 15) at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.

Last Updated November 17, 2015

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