The first conference on women religious to be held at the University of Notre Dame's Kylemore Abbey Global Centre in Ireland since it opened two years ago focused on the role of women religious in migrant education. On March 15 and 16, sisters working on the front lines in migrant education in places like Italy, the Philippines, Latin America and Nigeria exchanged information and testimonies with scholars who document sisters' work.

Contemplate This - Jesus was a teacher. All those who chose to follow him were invited to see things differently. To wake up to what is really there. For me, that is the invitation to contemplation. Holy Week is a solemn time to take time. I'd invite you to make sitting in contemplation a priority during these days leading up to and following Easter.

"The agronomy team helps people stand on their own two feet so they can begin to walk. They meet people where they are in order to take the next good step together, hand in hand."

GSR Today - Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team chaplain, Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, garners affection for valid, welcome reasons. But there are some points that we at GSR would like to share with our media colleagues.

Sr. Miriam MacGillis's path took her from a content art teacher in the 1960s to co-founder in 1980 of Genesis Farm in Blairstown, New Jersey. MacGillis talks with GSR about living in harmony with the Earth and what has happened in the last four decades on the farm.

Notes from the Field - The Jean Marie Vincent Center, better known to locals as the Grepen Center, is responsible for a mountaintop they have reforested; in the 1990s, the mountain was barren and dry because the trees had been cut down for fuel.

In studying the background of World War II, I sense there is more in "Fiddler on the Roof" than I had noticed before.

"As I move closer to the center, of what must I let go? Who comes to mind? Where am I with the deepest desires of my life? Each turn gives me a chance to open myself up to how God is present. We walk together."

At the end of two weeks of meetings that drew women from throughout the world, the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women called for stronger efforts to advocate equality for a largely ignored group — rural women and girls.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, Sylvania Franciscan Sr. Shannon Shrein discusses the sacred myths that are the two Creation stories in Genesis.