by GSR Staff
"We do have choices as we face the prevailing winds of change. We can choose to stand rigid like an oak tree and crack, lament the past and fear the future like weeping willows, shimmer and shake like quaking aspens, or be flexible like pines that can bend in the wind."
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
GSR Today - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is not a fictional place, though before I traveled there, my community did not believe it was real.
"Women in their struggles know what it means not to be included. Out of that awareness, we must include everyone for a flourishing of life." Global Sisters Report speaks to a number of Catholic sisters with experience at the United Nations about the values women would bring to the formation of foreign policy.
A new report finds that human traffickers who prey on guest workers in the US are relying heavily on gaps in accountability within the temporary work visa system. Based on national hotline data from 2015 to 2017, 797 individuals are believed to be victims.
by Annamarie Marcalus
Contributor
Religious life can rejuvenate and thrive in the 21st century. As the "expectant mothers" of this rejuvenation, we women religious must let go, take risks for change, be flexible and lead.
by GSR Staff
"People around us are whispering their stories to us all the time. Too shy to proclaim their need or their success, too fearful of ridicule or shame, incredulous that anyone would even care, the people around us leave clues of their desire to be noticed."
Sr. Annamarie Marcalus is a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Clinton, Iowa. A native of New Jersey, she entered the Iowa community in 1959, and completed a graduate degree in recreation therapy from the University of Iowa. She is a retired teacher who continues to employ her love for teaching in tutoring students from the University of Iowa and at the Catholic Worker House in Iowa City (where she also cooks meals). She enjoys photojournalism, has published in the religious and secular press, and wrote a play which was produced and played on 42nd Street in New York City.
by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
Contributor
Sr. Elenita Belardo, a the Religious of the Good Shepherd, is the current coordinator of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, a broad alliance of lay and religious missionaries who journey in solidarity with peasants from northern, central and southern Philippine provinces in their quest for land justice and freedom.
by Kathryn James Hermes
Contributor
I sometimes check an app where people are encouraged to leave their secrets, things they wouldn't tell others. After many months of listening to people's stories in this hidden way, I can say that the driving force that is at the root of all their stories and my own, is the longing to be loved, known, seen, heard, cared for.
by GSR Staff
"Our future rests not upon our politics or economics but the degree to which all of us meet the moral call to our neighbors, children, God's creation and our common future."
