Mercy Sr. Alicia Zapata was inspired by working in Panama as a young woman religious and later moved to Florida to serve migrant farmworkers there.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 7 at the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters' motherhouse in Sinsinawa for Dominican Sr. Catherine Dooley, a leader in the field of liturgical catechesis. Popularly known as "Sister Kate," she died Dec. 1 in Sinsinawa at age 82

"Today, the mission of the church, as it was then, is to speak out on poverty. The four women were doing that with the people suffering then, as we sisters are today."

COP21 Paris - As the second day of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature opened in the packed auditorium of Maison des Métallos, a cultural center in the heart of Paris, a disturbing word was shared about the COP21 negotiations taking place just north of the city.

Out of this context of creation that I'm puzzling over my response to Pope Francis, especially as a Global Sister. How have I, trusting my life experience, education and collaboration, responded out of the agency that we women have?

Sr. Megan Rice, a Society of the Holy Child Jesus sister, now 85, has been arrested almost 40 times and has spent some three years in jail in her quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons. One might think she's been doing this all her life, but most of her activism and subsequent arrests came after she'd spent 33 years teaching science and running schools in Nigeria and Ghana.

This blog generally is about the church’s response to crises around the world. But there are some days when I just don’t know how to respond anymore.

COP21 Paris - The study, which examines 100 incidents of co-violations of human rights and rights of nature, underscores the reality that the well-being of humans and nature is inextricably linked.

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”