Catherine factory
The work of Saint Catherine of Siena , Basel , was founded in 1913 by Marie Frieda Albiez as a Catholic women's community and was recognized as a secular institute by the Roman Catholic Church in 1952 .
The psychologist and Zen master Pia Gyger renewed the orientation of the institute from 1982 to 1994, based on the thinking of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin . At the center of spirituality is the vision of a united humanity and engagement in ecumenism, in interreligious dialogue, in peace and reconciliation work and in projects of spiritual-political awareness-raising. Today the community consists of women and men of different ways of life, professions, denominations and religions.
The Katharina-Werk supports the Lassalle Institute founded in 1993 by Niklaus Brantschen and Pia Gyger , which trains executives on the basis of ethics, and the contemplation school Via Integralis .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The interreligious orientation of the ktw. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Katharina Werk, archived from the original on May 8, 2014 ; Retrieved May 7, 2014 . (PDF)