by GSR Staff
February 22, 2016
"No human being is worthless or disposable, like they might make us feel. And I know that if we unite, we will accomplish something."
Sr. Kathryn James Hermes is a Daughter of St. Paul, an author, and is blessed to be able to spend all her life living Jesus and giving him to the world. Two of her titles, Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach and Reclaim Regret: How God Heals Life's Disappointments, spring from her own experience of healing and love of spirituality.
by Margaret Galiardi
Contributor
February 22, 2016
Among the better-known Native American tales is a conversation between a grandfather and his grandson. The elder explains to the younger that two wolves live inside of each of us. One is ferocious, harmful and vengeful. The other is gentle, loving and steadfast. They are, the grandfather explains, perpetually at war with one another.
February 22, 2016
GSR Today: To this day, the 1980 murders of four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador looms large in the consciousness of the religious community. Also, did you know that the things refugees bring across the U.S.-Mexico border are thrown away by the authorities?
February 22, 2016
"Ave Maria," a 14-minute comedy about an unexpected encounter between a group of nuns living in the Palestinian West Bank and a family of Jewish settlers, is one of five shorts nominated in the category of best live action short film.
February 22, 2016
Life skills combined with a vocational education help young women in Tanzania gain confidence and skills to be able to say "no" to early marriage based on financial need. Sisters and others are helping them to start their own businesses and make their own choices.
February 22, 2016
Religious and clergy in the Philippines say their experiences in the People Power Revolution 30 years ago have had a lasting impact on their faith and vocations. Sr. Porferia "Pingping" Ocariza, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul said that what she did Feb. 23, 1986, was worth it.
Simone Orendain has returned to work as a freelance multimedia journalist after eight years of caregiving. She reports from the Chicago/Midwest area and Asia, and she regularly covers the Catholic Church in the United States and Asia. She was a foreign correspondent based in Manila for six years before returning to the United States in 2016. In the United States, Simone was an education reporter and regularly covered business and religion.
by GSR Staff
February 19, 2016
"With exclusion and inequality on the rise, we must step up efforts to ensure that all people, without discrimination, are able to access opportunities to improve their lives and those of others."
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
February 19, 2016
In the week since the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, much has been written in remembrance of his life, his manner on the court, and his legacy. Even in the midst of such commentary and the almost immediate speculation about the process of nominating his successor, there arose a story that I had never heard: the infamous friendship between Scalia and fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.