From A Nun's Life podcasts - Sr. Cecilia Marie Fausto talks about the begging tradition of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Sr. Gerardine Mueller of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey, can't do many of the things she used to. But that doesn't get her down. She is still able to make art and she still fulfills a dream she had since she was 3 years old: being a nun.

"Networking is one of the best ways to promote vocations and other activities in the church. It makes people work together to seek the common goal. We need to work, pray and grow together."

The problem with social justice is that we have made it a human work when in fact social justice is, in a sense, a definition of nature itself. Social justice cannot exist as an independent phenomenon because it is the underlying principle of all phenomena. By highlighting social justice as a particular area of concern, we unwittingly confess our deep disconnect from nature.

GSR Today - "Wagga Wagga." These words captured my imagination as they rolled off my tongue. I had heard the name many times and was curious what they meant. Luckily, for me, when I was in Sydney in May for a conference of Presentation Sisters' schools, I had my chance to visit this mysterious-sounding place.

More than 150 Catholic sisters from nine countries gathered in Tanzania for the 17th Plenary of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa. The 43-year-old organization represents approximately 40,000 sisters in nine countries.

"In all things, I have been witness to the power and necessity of loving one another despite all that threatens to make that choice difficult, uncomfortable or even unpalatable. What exactly do I mean by that? Love is messy. Love — true love — will always cost something, and it will occasionally cost everything. It is pricey because it is valuable. And the more it costs, the greater its worth."

"When one breaks the laws to resist the probability of nuclear war, one is not just breaking the law ... one is upholding the one law from which all decent and just law derives: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' "

In Conversation - Theologian Christopher Pramuk and Catholic Srs. Tracey Horan and Larretta Rivera-Williams talk about race relations and the Catholic response.

Hurricane Harvey response, updated Sept. 1 - Women religious in the areas surrounding the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey are working to ease the suffering of those impacted by the storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane along the Texas coast Aug. 25.