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SACRAMENTO, CA (CNS) - Rosalind Moss, an author who is an Eternal Word Television Network TV host and one of the network's radio hosts, announced Feb. 13 that she is starting a new community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. The new group will be called the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope, she told an audience of more than 200 at the Catholic Breakfast Club of Sacramento. Moss, 65, said she hopes to move to St. Louis within a few months, intends to fulfill as many of her...

A rolled-away stone gathers Moss: from Judaism to CatholicismHow does a Jewish person of faith convert to Catholicism? To judge by Rosalind Moss’s eighteen-year journey into the Church, the answer is . . . very slowly. Raised in Brooklyn, in a conservative Jewish home with one older brother and one younger sister, Moss never even considered that she would ever be anything other than Jewish. “It’s what I was. We were God’s people. That was my identity,” says Moss. “We waited for the Messiah to come,” adds Moss, “but He never did.” As a teenager, her brother David became an...

From the heart of a Jewish convert: An open letter to William Cardinal Keeler in response to "Reflections on Covenant and Mission" Ed. Reprinted with permission from This Rock, a magazine of Catholic Answers, Inc., P. O. Box 19000, San Diego, CA 92159 Phone: 1-619-387-7200; Web: www.catholic.com. This article was reprinted in "The Hebrew Catholic", #77, Fall 2002, pp. 20-23. Cardinal Keeler is the U.S. Catholic bishops’ moderator for Jewish relations. Dear Cardinal Keeler: I am grateful, your Eminence, that by issuing Reflections On Covenant and Mission (August 12) you have encouraged serious reflection by Jews and Catholics throughout the...