At a recent town hall meeting broadcast on CNN, Sinsinawa Dominican Sr. Erica Jordan got to ask Speaker Paul Ryan how his policies match up to Catholic social teaching. She found his answer patronizing and shares with Global Sisters Report what she would have said next if given the chance.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - A listener poses a question on behalf of a friend who loves religious life but feels guilty for disobeying her parents, who disapprove of her choice to follow God's will.

Nearly one year after the killings of Sr. Paula Merrill of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and Sr. Margaret Held of the School Sisters of St. Francis, the sisters' congregations and loved ones continue to carry on. "Our individual and community grief flowed in and out of each other," Sr. Susan Gatz, president of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, wrote. "Our minds scrambled to make sense of it ... no use. Our hearts ached."

Williams, the company building the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline extension, had sued the Adorers of the Blood of Christ sisters for immediate seizure of their land to prevent construction of a chapel in the path of the planned pipeline.

"We are the church, the hands of Christ, a group of disciples who take up their crosses daily and head off into the world to continue Christ's mission."

As the Lebanese army wages an offensive against an Islamic State enclave near the border of Syria, Lebanese civilians — Christian and Muslim — are working side by side, not far from the frontlines, to feed some 5,000 soldiers.

Notes from the Field - My heart was called to the Nong Khai community in a way that I still can't explain. It was as if a part of me had to be claimed here for me to be whole.

Our sister now has a newly discovered half brother with whom she shares the same father. A Gospel story reminds us that we share the same father, our God, with all people throughout the world.

"Sustainability also links us to ancient traditions of earth and agriculture, food and ritual. It takes the flat out of the moment and makes time dense, at the very tables of our ordinary life."

Mary Immaculate Sr. Licia Puthuparambil, a member of the Canon Law Council of the International Union of Superiors General, lends her expertise to its mission to provide canonical guidance to leaders of religious institutes of women in Africa, Asia and elsewhere.