GSR Feature Series

LCWR 2021

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious' annual assembly in 2021 will again be virtual, but organizers say it will be less like an online meeting and more like a retreat.

NCSW 2019

This year's National Catholic Sisters Week will be the biggest ever.

Personas sin hogar

Homelessness

Catholic sisters have been taking steps for decades to address homelessness and affordable housing issues around the world — and getting others to join them. 

Francis in the United States

Sister stories from Pope Francis' 2015 visit to the United States.

2020 in review

We can all agree that 2020 was a tumultuous, often painful year, given the coronavirus pandemic, natural disasters like earthquakes, fires and hurricanes that affected many regions of the world, and election tensions, among other challenges.

A Good Death

The declining numbers of Catholic sisters in America will come as no surprise to GSR readers. But every loss is significant in itself.

A Just Transition

Catholic sisters and organizations are working on a just transition to a sustainable planet through actions to fight climate change and to move workers away from jobs that contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions say the transition is moral, practical and imperative.

A Place to Call Home

More than 1.6 billion people worldwide live in substandard housing. Of those, at least 150 million have no home at all.

Abuse of sisters

Galvanized by the #MeToo movement and the sex abuse crisis commanding the attention of the Vatican, women religious are now openly discussing a subject that was once taboo — sexual harassment, abuse and rape of sisters by clergy — in congregational motherhouses and national conference offices.

ACWECA 2014

A religious canonist has called upon leaders of over 100 congregations gathered at the 16th ACWECA General Assembly to celebrate the gift of their members who are committed to the religious life.

Advent

Each year, Global Sisters Report invites our sister columnists to reflect on the Advent season.

Adviento

HIV/AIDS Ministry

Stories and Q&As with sisters ministering to those with HIV/AIDS. 

Apostolic Visitation

On January 30, 2009, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that there would be a doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). Approximately 80 percent of active Catholic sisters in the United States are part of this organization.

Visita apostólica

Bishop Mulakkal trial

The case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, which began in 2018 after a nun accused him of raping her multiple times, went to trial in August 2020. 

Juicio al obispo Mulakkal

Contemplative Communities

A six-part series by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans exploring the depth and diversity of contemplative orders in the United States, published sequentially throughout the week of Oct. 5-9, 2015, plus two columns by contributing authors about contemplative life.

COP21 Paris

Coverage of COP21, the United Nations' conference on climate change, which runs Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 2015, in Paris.