GSR Today - I covered the annual assemblies of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2015 in Houston. This year, I instead covered the Resource Center for Religious Institutes' national conference in southern California.
by GSR Staff
"Our life can also become a journey of learning, building, sharing, consoling and rejoicing, if only we keep our hearts open to the promptings of God."
Catholic News Service
Mother Theodore Guerin was canonized October 15, 2006, making her Indiana's only saint. Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods began celebrating the 10th anniversary with a special Mass on her October 3 feast day. They planned to recall her arrival in Indiana with another service October 22.
by Lissy Maruthanakuzhy
Travels give us one the most precious things in life: time with ourselves. For me, each trip has been an invitation to self-discovery. As a Catholic religious woman in India, I have to make long and short trips, mostly by train, to the length and breadth of this vast country.
by GSR Staff
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
This year, the annual SOA Watch protest took place at the border instead of at the school the group has protested for the last 27 years. The group still aims to draw attention to what used to be called the School of the Americas, but the 2016 gathering also focused on increased militarization of the border. "Different issue, but same shame," one protestor said.
Since January 2016, Christian E. Ruehling has been serving as a volunteer missioner for VIDES+USA, a volunteer missioner organization that is dedicated to education and development for youth and women in situations of poverty, marginalization, or difficulty, both in the Untied States and worldwide. His missionary travels have taken him through Ethiopia, Rome and Geneva. Prior to deciding to pick up the volunteerism mantle, Christian worked 10 years in the private sector, where he specialized on due diligence, anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering issues for major corporations.
Maria Beben is currently engaged in a year of service as the staff writer for Franciscan Mission Service in Washington, D.C. Originally from a small, rural town in New Jersey, Maria graduated from The Catholic University of America in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a minor in theology and religious studies.
Religious life in North America and Europe stands on a precipice of transformation to a new form that no one yet knows, and leaders need to embrace that mystery instead of trying to sustain the past, St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn told a gathering of women and men religious Thursday.
