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August 23, 2016
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  • Read more about Q & A with Sr. Margaret Farrell, serving Los Angeles' Skid Row

Sr. Margaret Farrell, a Religious Sister of Charity from Ireland who was sent to California as a novice in the late 1980s to serve in Los Angeles' juvenile halls and who has been the spiritual director of Covenant House California since 2001, finds that even today, there are Los Angeles natives who are oblivious to Skid Row's existence.

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

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August 23, 2016
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  • Read more about Austrian sisters recognized for 40 years of working with South Korean leprosy patients

Two Austrian Catholic nuns who spent more than 40 years working with people with Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, on the South Korean island of Sorok have been awarded the prestigious Korean Manhae Award for Social Work and recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize.

by Jose Kavi

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August 22, 2016
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  • Read more about Church in India prepares policy to address clergy abuse

Two top bodies of the Catholic church in India are now busy finalizing a policy to address sex abuse and other forms of abuse by clergy. "A draft policy is in the final stage now. It has been circulated among all bishops and major superiors in India," says Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.

This story appears in the LCWR 2016 feature series. View the full series.

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August 22, 2016
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  • Read more about A special moment in time, a fullness leading to newness

There are rare moments when one experiences a fullness of time. A time and place where the previous years' hopes and desires emerge as an intensified whole deeper and more grounded than one could have hoped. That was my experience of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' (LCWR) Assembly this year.

by Joachim Pham

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August 22, 2016
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  • Read more about An urban dairy in Ho Chi Minh City

Photo essay - Along the banks of the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, a small dairy farm is couched in the compound of the motherhouse of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Thu Thiem. The convent dates back 176 years. For the last 26, Sr. Martha Nguyen Thi Quan has been the chief operator of the farm.

  • Read more about Joan O'Reilly

Joan O'Reilly is a Presentation Sister in the community's Northern Province of Ireland.

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August 19, 2016
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  • Read more about August 19, 2016

"Prayer isn't meant to change things; it is meant to change us."

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August 19, 2016
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  • Read more about Look to the sisters for an example of humanitarian aid done right

GSR Today - As the world honors humanitarians today, August 19, the U.N.'s World Humanitarian Day, it's good to consider the debate that has been brewing for some time about whether the "aid world" has been a success or whether it is broken and needs to be fixed.

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August 19, 2016
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  • Read more about An experiment in hope

Demographic collapse is tough ground to build a case for hope on. Yet, that's exactly where Marcia Allen, CSJ, began her presidential address, entitled "Transformation – An Experiment in Hope," to the Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) last week. She didn't talk about diminishment or downsizing, as women religious are apt to do.

This story appears in the See for Yourself feature series. View the full series.

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August 19, 2016
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  • Read more about Lunch bag matters

See for Yourself - It's back to school season once again and I have some advice for adults who take their lunch to work. You could choose a plain brown sack but its ability to protect everything securely is iffy. 

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