Dan Stockman

Monday Starter - Six communities of women religious have banded together to speak against gun violence. "How long will we continue to accept mass shooting after mass shooting?" the congregations asked in a statement.

Congregations of sisters own properties or buildings that are larger than they need or too expensive to keep. But resources exist that can help congregations discern the best future for their land and buildings.

Since 2011, Sr. Mary Gemma Harris has been writing songs as they come to her and putting them to music. Most of those songs have been collected into an album, released last fall. She spoke to GSR about how it happened.

Stringing Rosaries by Denise Lajimodiere, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, North Dakota, shares 16 oral histories of boarding school survivors.

Author Shannon Dee Williams' extensively researched Subversive Habits tells the history of Black sisters in the U.S. She spoke to GSR about the toll of the project and why the truth is not something to be afraid of.

Through a new initiative, congregations, federations and conferences around the world will work to ensure Catholic sisters with dementia and cognitive impairment will live their best lives both physically and spiritually until the end of their days.

A chapel at the oldest Jesuit university in the United States is now named for Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman instead of a priest who once fought in the Confederate army.

A year after stepping down as executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, Sr. Simone Campbell is working on a project that tries to create dialogue between Democrats and Republicans.

Congregations of women religious struggling to find the resources to run a novitiate program now have an alternative: The InterCongregational Collaborative Novitiate, a yearlong novitiate program open to all.

As Network celebrates 50 years, it plans to continue work on dismantling structural racism, forming a truly inclusive and multiracial democracy, and building new political structures that put human dignity over profits.

Concerns shared during a global UISG webinar include the fear of elderly sisters going into a separate home and the lack of retirement culture — facilities for elderly religious are seen as a place to go to die.

Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, have signed a conservation easement to protect land that is home to their motherhouse as well as forest, prairie, wetlands, farm fields, a cemetery, labyrinth and nature trails.

Several women religious communities are collaborating to address the unique dynamics of poverty in New Orleans, beyond the tourist attractions of the French Quarter.

The celebration of the Loretto Earth Network came as U.N. Commission on the Status of Women focused on empowering women and girls in the context of climate change and environmental and disaster risk reduction policies.

Sacred Heart Sr. Maria Cimperman is a true believer in the Synod of Bishops on synodality: "The whole synodal process is really communal discernment. How do we walk with each other and hear each other?"

Nearly 50 Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, participated in a parish synodal event. "As nuns, we want to make people more active in the church," Sr. Chandana Rozario said.

It's hard to imagine how powerless the people of Ukraine must feel as their lives are torn apart. It's also hard to feel like you can help. But prayer does help, as Catholic sisters will always tell you.

Participants in an International Union of Superiors General webinar March 9 heard from presenters that the percentage of sisters who are elderly is expected to increase globally over the next decades.

More than 1,000 Catholic long-term care facilities in the United States, most of which were founded by sisters or are sponsored ministries, and secular nursing homes alike are working through the difficulties that persist. Residents suffer the consequences. 

Monday Starter: Catholic sisters across the world are praying, working and raising money to help refugees and families in crisis as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. You can pray and pitch in, too.