File:Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, Harborcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania - 20211010.jpg
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English: Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, 6101 East Lake Road at Troupe Road, Harborcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, October 2021. Home of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, founded in 1856 as Northwest Pennsylvania's first female Catholic monastic community and tracing their tradition back to the nuns of St. Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt, Bavaria, the 84 women who today make up this community live and worship in a striking Modernist complex, seen here, built in 1969 in suburban Harborcreek Township. The elegant stylized colonnades framing the entrance and the impressive openwork bell tower are but two of the outstanding features of the center's architecture. Especially since their move to Harborcreek, Erie's Benedictine Sisters have accrued a reputation for their progressive take on Catholicism: they were active in the peace movement during the Vietnam War, they donated a sizable chunk of their complex in 1981 for the construction of an affordable housing complex, and most recently, in 2001, Sister Joan Chittister of the order made news (and risked excommunication) by travelling to Dublin, with the support of her Mother Superior but in defiance of Vatican orders, to speak at a conference in favor of women's ordination. |
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