Sister Anne Arabome, SSS, is a member of the Sisters of Social Service in Los Angeles, California. She has served as the Associate Director of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Marquette University and recently founded the Sophia Institute for Theological Studies and Spiritual Formation in Namibia. She holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Roehampton, UK, and a Doctor of Ministry in Spirituality from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Sr. Anne is deeply committed to the theological education, spiritual formation, and transformative growth of African women religious, with a foundation rooted in Ignatian spirituality. She is the founder of the Bakhita Initiative for African Women that aims to educate and empower both lay and religious women and girls across Africa. She is the author of Why Do You Trouble This Woman? Women and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (2022).
With humility and hope, confidence and joy, let us join Jesus Christ on his ride into the loving embrace of our victorious God.VIEW
Above all, we are called to be a source of life, a wellspring of healing, and a fount of hope for all women and men, especially those who are weak, vulnerable, abused, and marginalizedVIEW
Nevertheless, life-giving and empowering voices of women are rising across the world, in church and society. We have heard the voice of the Good Shepherd; we have been nourished by God’s gift of abundant life. With passion and compassion, we lift our voices to ask: Why is our church not listening to us? Why does our church not hear our voices?VIEW