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The Sister Kathleen Deignan, CND Institute for Earth and Spirit at Iona College was launched on October 3 2019. On October 3, friends, family and members of the campus community gathered at Iona College for the launch of the Sister Kathleen Deignan, CND Institute for Earth and Spirit. A sister of the Congregation of Notre […]

We would like to humbly thank San Damiano Daily Giving for their generous contribution to Schola Ministries. Their kind offering will aid our outreach, feast day blessings and more […]

We are delighted to announce that our free iSchola app, launched recently on iPhone is now available for Android users. We wish that all find their way to our Oratory, the virtual chapel, and that it aids our friends in daily contemplation. iSchola is still in its early stages and any feedback would be greatly […]

Kathleen’s beautiful music was today featured on Domestic Church Media radio along with other artists. You can listen at WFJS 1260 AM, or hear Cheryl’s full show online! We are delighted with Schola’s first foray into radio, and equally excited to kick this adventure off with Cheryl and Domestic Church Media. Schola music has been […]

Schola Ministries are delighted to be able to share with you our virtual chapel, news and blogs via our free new iPhone application, iSchola. Technology is an important part of our ministries, a way for us to share prayer and hope, and Sr. Kathleen’s beautiful music. Any feedback at all would be greatly appreciated, and […]

All of us at Schola wish to acknowledge all who still bear the intimate wound of 9.11’s great wounding – the families and friends of those who perished in the attacks on our city and country. We sincerely pray that this has been a decade of healing for you and your hearts’ profound grief. As […]

Hudson Valley New York July 15, 2011. The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, a thirty year-old, pioneering organization in spiritual formation, transformation, and the training of spiritual guides announces the selection of faculty members for its two-year Apprenticeship Program in Spiritual Guidance. “We are pleased to announce these faculty appointments. The founders and former faculty members […]

Or at least your home? A sustainability conference, sponsored by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, addressed different ways to save energy, money at home, in business and in government. “We’ve labored to create a Wonderland,” said Kathleen Deignan, Professor of Theology at Iona College., “but it’s brought the vital flourishing of 65 billion years of evolution to an end. We’ve moved from wonder world to waste world in two centuries. Our challenge, is to take up the great work of our age.”

Contemplative Ecopsychology and The Great Work Dr. Will W. Adams, Duquesne University Our estrangement from the rest nature clearly wreaks devastation on Earth’s natural community, and also generates immense psychological, social, and spiritual distress for humankind. The ecological crisis we are facing – or not – has emerged from a deeply rooted crisis of consciousness […]

Kathleen Deignan, CND is Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY and director of the Iona Spirituality Institute. A member of the board of The International Thomas Merton Society, and composer in residence with Schola Ministries, her books include Thomas Merton’s Writings on Nature and Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours. […]