Sutera, Judith: - JUDITH SUTERA, OSB, a member of the monastery of Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, was one of the first women in the United States to receive a master's degree in monastic theology. Editor of Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History, she is on the board of The American Benedictine Review and is editor in chief of The American Monastic Newsletter. Sister Judith serves as an oblate director and gives retreats and workshops for people of many faiths on the practice of Benedictine spirituality.