by Rachel Stella
Contributor
Changes in church governance structures and increased inclusion of the laity, particularly women, were themes expressed Oct. 9 at a forum at Dominican University to respond to reports exposing sexual abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church.
Julianna Lewis graduated from Tulane University in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in public health and a minor in Spanish. She is now doing a year of service with VIDES+USA, where she will spend September through December in Bogotá, Colombia, tending to and accompanying elderly Salesian sisters in a care home and January through April in Geneva, Switzerland, assisting at the Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice Human Rights Office, which has special consultative status with the United Nations.
Rachel Stella is a freelance journalist based in Joliet, Illinois, focusing on Christianity and local news from the greater Chicago area. She was assistant/web editor for Mennonite World Review for three years. She has a bachelor's degree in mass communication/journalism from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. Follow her on Twitter @rachelcstella.
Nuns on the Bus Blog - Sisters report from their visit to the office of Rep. Mimi Walters and rally in Irvine, California, and their roundtable with Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and town hall in Las Vegas.
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, Holy Family of Nazareth Sr. Angela Szczawinska talks about God surprising her with a call to vocation.
by Virginia DeVinne
Contributor
Language is powerful in its ability to shape our perspective. How we name our reality can, to some extent, lead us to very different conclusions.
Blessed Catherine Kasper, founder of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, will be canonized Oct. 14. GSR spoke with the congregation's leaders about Kasper's life, legacy and upcoming sainthood. "One of the first gifts of the canonization is that she's now a gift to the church," Sr. Judith Diltz says. "She doesn't just belong to the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ."
• Listen to an NCR podcast: Canonizing Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI and Catherine Kasper
Catholics who work on the climate change issue say the world has "a moral and ethical imperative to act," following the release of a major report that foresees a global climate crisis.
by Philippa Hitchen
The initiative, which includes housing for refugee women and children, is the result of cooperation between Cabrini sisters, Scalabrini sisters, various Vatican offices, the International Union of Superiors General, and the Italian bishops' conference.
