Chittister amanpour biography

I keep hearing in my head snippets of Joan Chittister's dialogue this week with reporter Christiane Amanpour, to which I linked yesterday.  Amanpour says she needs to "push" Chittister, and then she voices what she hears the Vatican and U.S. bishops saying to American religious women: 

You are a part of the Roman Catholic church. 

You either stay in line or you get out of Dodge. 

It's back to basics. 

Toe the line.

Basics.  Lines.  My way.  Serve me and my definitions or leave.  

Catholic?  It's me and what I say.  Not you and what you do.

To which Chittister responds (and note in both cases I'm using actual pieces of the dialogue of these two, with slight elaborations of my own),

Well, what line are we talking about here? 

With the men running the church, it's a matter of wanting to make the rest of the world part of your world. 

For the medieval mind, there's an answer to everything, only one, it's either right

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Amanpour

Who is Arming Whom in Syria?; American Nuns vs. The Catholic Church

Aired June 13, 2012 - 15:00   ET

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour.

It is not us, it's them. Russia and the United States are hurling charges at each other, a war of accusations over who is giving what deadly weapons to Syria. This, even as the real war escalates. Another day, another city under siege, this time we're watching the city of Maarat al- Numaan, where unrest and fighting have gone on for months and rebels have had a strong foothold.

But in the last few days, government shelling has intensified. CNN obtained these pictures of an underground clinic treating the wounded.

Meanwhile, in the verbal crossfire, first Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, accused Russia of sending attack helicopters to the Assad regime. And then the Russian foreign minister, Sergey

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Conversations from Penn State: Joan Chittister

Conversations from Penn State

Season 8 Episode 5 | 26m 48sVideo has Closed Captions | CC

Benedictine nun, author and advocate Joan Chittister discusses her spiritual journey.

For 40 years, Sister Joan Chittister has advocated for peace, human rights, women’s issues and church renewal. She is a frequent TV commentator, a sought-after speaker and author of more than 50 books, hundreds of articles, an online column for the National Catholic Reporter, and a blog for the Huffington Post. She received her PhD in in speech communications from Penn State.

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Conversations from Penn State

Season 8 Episode 5 | 26m 48sVideo has Closed Captions | CC

For 40 years, Sister Joan Chittister has advocated for peace, human rights, women’s issues and church renewal. She is a frequent TV commentator, a sought-after speaker and author of more than 50 books, hundreds of articles, an online column for the National Catholic Reporter, and a blog for the Huffington Post. She received her PhD in in speech communications from