Sandra Schneiders, IHM

Sandra Scheiders, IHM, is a leading authority on Catholic women's religious life and a frequent contributor to Catholic periodicals, as well as a renowned author. 

She has written numerous books on the topic, including Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life; Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context; With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future; and New Wineskins: Re-Imagining Religious Life Today.

Sister Sandra is professor emerita of scripture spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif., and teaches courses such as biblical spirituality, Christian spirituality and religious life. She holds a doctorate degree in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

She has written numerous articles, some of which have recently appeared in the National Catholic Reporter.

Read Sister Sandra's thought-provoking work on religious women in prophetic ministry, ministerial religious life and and the past, present, and future of women eligious in the United States.