Sr. Monica Gail Grimes, who died in July at age 88, helped build a decades-long ministry alongside farmworkers and Black and Hispanic communities in Central Florida through the Hope CommUnity Center and beyond.
Plus, Dominican sisters recount flooding in Pakistan; Birkenstock scores a hit with animated nun in ad; and climate investment fund backed by sisters helps more than a million in Africa.
Plus, sisters representing the International Union of Superiors General meet with Queen Camilla, and anti-trafficking coalition Talitha Kum plans webinar and annual report release.
In the face of decades of papal teachings about the reality and urgency of climate change, U.S. sisters have been leaders on environmental action. In contrast, U.S. bishops have largely not been creation care leaders.
The new graphic novel based on Sr. Helen Prejean's bestselling memoir about ministering on Louisiana's death row will attract new readers and satisfy longtime fans of the original book.
Plus, tensions in northeast India force nuns and clerics to flee homes; Sr. Nathalie Becquart gets honorary degree, and sisters mark Day Against Child Labor.
