This episode features Sr. Anne Flanagan, a Daughter of St. Paul, who talks about the importance of religious sisters in media-based ministry. As a teenager, her discernment with the Daughters of St. Paul was sparked by a fateful encounter with a sister at the Pauline bookstore in Metairie, Louisiana, who told Sr. Anne it was the Pauline mission to “put the media at the service of the Church.” Since entering her congregation, her ministries have taken the form of multimedia approaches to sharing and living the Gospel. Her book Come To Me - Living The Nine First Fridays won First Place in the “Prayer” category at the 2024 Association of Catholic Publishers and the Catholic Media Association Book Awards. Previously, she created the music section for the Vatican’s Jubilee website in the 90s. Author of several books, Sr. Anne was also the decade-long editor of My Friend, a children’s magazine. Not only a wordsmith, but a songstress, she has sung in the Sistine Chapel Choir. On social media, she is known as @nunblogger, where she has cultivated a large following.

The Flourishing Sisterhood Project is supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative. The podcast is produced by the Loyola Institute for Ministry and retained by the university’s Digital Humanities Archive.

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