Editor's introduction / Paul J. Philibert -- The transformation of U.S. religious life / Sean Sammon -- The challenge to religious leadership: maintenance or mission / Howard J. Gray -- Living in the meantime: biblical foundations for religious life / Donald senior -- Religious obedience: liberty and law / R. Kevin Seasoltz -- The vow of poverty: our challenge to integrity / Luise Ahrens -- Negotiating loneliness in the celibate process / A.W. Richard Sipe -- Celibate chastity and prayer / Paul J. Philibert -- Retrieving, reclaming and reappropriating monasticism / Mary Margaret Funk -- Transforming life: the charism of religious life / Margaret Brennan -- Communities of hope / Donna Markham -- Setting free the charism / Paul Hennessy -- Is the Eucharist still a source of meaning for women? / Mary Collins -- Religious life in the U.S.: understanding the moment / Rembert G. Weakland -- Editor's afterword / Paul Philibert.
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