In 1973, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta sent seven Missionaries of Charity brothers from India to then-Saigon at the request of the local archbishop; and they cared for homeless people until they left the city in 1975, when communist forces took control at the end of the Vietnam War. A few years later a group of seven Catholic women and formed the Missionaries of Christ's Charity, and its members have been serving the poor, sick and elderly there ever since.

At the halfway mark of my chemotherapy treatment course I find myself in the middle of Advent. I have a lot of time on my hands during this December which is so busy for most people. My mind is going but my body is not. I think about the Advent theme of waiting.

See for Yourself - Every day I have the privilege of working with graduate students who want to become health services administrators. Recently I received an email request from the individual who heads a local group advocating for workplace equality for women.

Three Stats and a Map - The shooting in San Bernardino on Dec. 2 was one in a heartbreakingly long line of mass shootings the U.S. has seen in recent years. The trend has spurred debates about gun control laws, due to the troubling fact that many mass shooters obtained weapons legally.

Sr. Mercy Kariuki, the director of the Tumaini Center Hostel in Nairobi, Kenya, talks about what it’s like to run a hostel that is also a central meeting point for sisters across East Africa

A new study of Catholic sisters shows that the number of vowed women religious in the United States today is approximately the same as it was a century ago — just under 50,000.

COP21 Paris - French leaders here Dec. 9 released a new, slimmed-down version of a draft agreement to inch negotiations forward toward a global deal to address climate change.

COP21 Paris - For most people climate change is a scientific abstraction posing a distant threat. "It's in the Arctic or distant in time," said Dan Price, an English climate scientist in his 20s, speaking in the "green" Climate Generations area adjacent to the official "blue" area where the COP21 climate negotiations are taking place.