Nairobi, 30 August, 2024 / 10:50 pm (ACI Africa).
A huge pastoral gap exists among women Religious serving in non-Catholic institutions, a Kenyan Catholic Nun has said, and proposed that the Church addresses the pastoral needs of Catholic Sisters serving in non-Catholic settings, especially when designing Diocesan and national pastoral programs.
In an interview with ACI Africa, Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando urged Catholic Bishops and Superiors General of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) to come up with a plan that takes care of the spiritual needs of the Catholic Sisters serving in non-Catholic institutions.
In the Thursday, June 29 interview, a few days after her book, “Moving into the Unreached Pastoral Frontiers: Making Visible the Impact of Catholic Sisters working in non-Catholic Institutions”, was released, Sr. Lando said, “Findings of my study seem to suggest that there is the need for the development of a pastoral care program for Catholic Sisters working in non-Catholic institutions.”
“My appeal to our Bishops and Superiors General for various Sisters’ Congregations is to have a desk that caters for the pastoral needs of these Sisters,” the Kenyan member of the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of Mary of Kakamega (SMK), who lectures at Daystar University in Kenya further said.