St. Joseph Sr. Teresa Lynch oversees a staff of 12 working with 230 students in Santa Ana, California. The hours are long and the challenges are daunting, but "St. Anne is more than a school. It's a family."
From nursing to Network, administration to asylum law, from the border to Capitol Hill, Sr. Mary Ellen Lacy has guided people through some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
As a nun on the Rwanda music scene who has composed popular praise and worship songs, Sr. Fébronie Kamana of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit in Rwanda is a talent to keep tabs on.
Out of zeal to protect children and the most vulnerable, Dominican Sr. Maria Valentina Rebollos Paragas has faced extraordinary hardships as a missionary in the Philippines, Australia and East Timor.
After Sr. Angela Mbalu Bangura became the provincial superior of her congregation, her objective as a leader was to unify all three West African provinces in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia, which are under her authority.
Comboni Missionary Sr. Helen Wahura left Kenya in 2023 to work at St. Mary's Church in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she provides catechism and spiritual guidance to Catholics of "the itinerant church."
Christian theology has long been based on words. But are there other ways of understanding faith? Can music be one of them? Verbum Dei Sr. Maeve Heaney explores such questions in Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt.
"We need to be touched, we need to be hugged and we need to be loved," says Sr. Rosalind Gefre, who from the mid-1990s to 2020 gave free massages at the St. Paul Saints minor league baseball games.
From working with rural communities in Nicaragua to directing campus ministry for U.S. students in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sr. Laura Zelten's love for God drove her to put others first and draw them closer to Jesus.