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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Sister Joan Chittister With Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2007

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, Joan Chittister would be the first female bishop. See more at onbeing.org/program/obedience-and-action/137

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I mean, I know some of your stories and want to start with, you know, where you started

0:05.4

in your life and how you how you came to be caring about the things you care about and

0:09.6

doing the things you do.

0:11.1

And so sorry about that.

0:12.6

That's okay.

0:13.6

That's what in fact, but you really touched into the reason for my question besides just

0:17.4

pure interest.

0:18.4

I remember I wanted just to say to you, Christy, if we're going to have seven minutes

0:23.6

out of this, is it going to take us 90 minutes to do it?

0:26.4

No, no, no.

0:27.4

We're going to have an hour of radio.

0:28.4

Okay.

0:29.4

That's fine.

0:30.4

Yeah.

0:31.4

No, no.

0:32.4

So we get a chance to do some talking.

0:33.7

We get to have a real conversation and it's not live, so it also doesn't have to be seamless.

0:39.9

It gets to be a real conversation and I'm going to let you ramble on if you feel like

0:44.4

it.

0:45.4

Okay.

0:46.4

No, I understand.

0:47.4

I don't do a lot of rambling.

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