Chris Herlinger

The Catholic missionaries killed in 2022 — including three women religious — were not carrying out high-risk work, according to the news agency of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Prominent sisters, some affiliated with U.S.-based organizations subject to Vatican investigations during Benedict XVI's papacy, mourn his death and praise his life of scholarship, spirituality and service.

More than 250 people from 59 U.S. Catholic charitable agencies participated in Catholic Charities USA's Applied Institute for Disaster Excellence training Dec. 5-9.

"It is a cold and dark time." As exiles, Ukrainian refugees in Poland are thinking of Christmases past and worried about a country struggling with the consequences of war: illness and hunger, deprivation and death.

A professor emeritus of music at Webster University has long been engaged with a project to publicize letters between two Sisters of Loretto and Conrad N. Hilton, the founder of the Hilton Hotels and Resorts chain.

Study finds that closures and restrictions forced millions of girls from developing countries to drop out of school," the announcement said, and "many of them never went back."

The war has strained Ukraine's power grid and increased the need for light. GSR joined a two-day mission into Ukraine to deliver flashlights and candles to a city far from the front lines but still affected by war.

Sr. Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki and six others who were patients at the Catholic health facility died Oct. 20 when gunmen attacked a Catholic mission hospital in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

As the decision overturning the right to abortion continues to shape the U.S. political and cultural landscape, sisters and others say now is the time to examine how the country can better help women and their families.

Friends in Solidarity, the U.S. partner to the ministry Solidarity with South Sudan, has announced the launch of a legacy fund thanks to a major gift from the Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters.

Catholic Charities USA has announced the retirement of Adrian Dominican Sr. Donna Markham as its president and chief executive officer after eight years leading the organization.

Officials and religious sisters see a perfect storm that began with the war in Ukraine, which rattled international markets and disrupted grain exports, leading to a rise in global hunger that will not be easily solved.

Pope Francis' goal of increased synodality has found a warm welcome in women's and men's religious congregations, according to a report by the International Union of Superiors General and the Union of Superiors General.

Providence and Bon Secours Mercy have responded to New York Times stories that allege that the chains engaged in practices that took advantage of low-income patients. Statements provided to GSR call the reporting unfair.

Concerns remain that Russia might use a nuclear weapon amid war in Ukraine. Advocates for a nuclear-free world said this may be a moment for an issue that has hovered in the background for years to become more prominent.

Sisters and congregational advocates at the United Nations are disappointed but not surprised at the breakdown of a monthlong meeting examining ways to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.

A number of African women were recognized at the Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life for their contribution to the continent's development. 

Loreto Sr. Patty Murray recently received LCWR's 2022 Outstanding Leadership Award. Murray grew up in Dublin and says her love of Irish poetry, storytelling and ritual help affirm hope during her 50-year ministry.

Jyoti Thottam hopes readers of her book on Sisters of Charity of Nazareth who started a hospital in India in 1947 appreciate "what it was like to be a woman in this period, a woman really making her own way."

Seven Maryknoll Sisters are leading the congregation's discernment initiative based on the recognition that climate change is altering the nature of mission work.