The number of sisters from other countries who live in the United States is unknown, so Trinity Washington University and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate are conducting a study to try to count them and measure whether they have come for education or leadership training or to fill ministry roles as missionaries or at parishes — and what kind of support they receive or need.
by GSR Staff
"Sometimes it is only from a distance that you have the perspective needed to understand an experience."
Catholic News Service
An encounter with Jesus changes people's lives, and that should be especially noticeable in those who are consecrated completely to serving God, the church and others, Pope Francis said. "One who has this encounter becomes a witness and makes the encounter possible for others, too," he said Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
GSR Today - Are U.S. presidential candidates really listening to the people when it comes to immigration policy? How is winter making Syrian refugee life even worse? Can a biographical film bring more empathy and action to the refugee situation?
Judy Dohner is a Sister of the Humility of Mary from Villa Maria, Pennsylvania. She has worked with migrants and immigrants for the past 30 years. She returned to the United States in 2018 after ministering in Haiti for 16 years and currently works with Haitian immigrants and refugees in Immokalee, Florida. She has written for Global Sisters Report and the National Catholic Reporter.
by GSR Staff
"The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life."
by Carol Hoverman
Contributor
As the eyes of the nation focus on the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1, the 13 congregations of Catholic Sisters of the Upper Mississippi River Valley want to capture the attention of participants to call for an end to environmentally destructive policies and practices, placing more than 20 billboards in strategic locations throughout state, southwest Wisconsin and western Illinois.
Carol Hoverman, OSF, is a member of the Dubuque Franciscan Sisters. In 2015 she retired as director of communications and editor of The Witness, the archdiocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa. She is a member of the Sisters United News (SUN) and parish musician at St. Patrick parish, Dubuque.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, we talk about the Year of Consecrated Life, which ends on February 2, 2016, and its effects on the church and world.
by Christin Tomy
We live three miles from a coal-fired power plant. On cold, still days, the smoke it releases barely moves; it piles upward in a tall column like a solitary cumulonimbus cloud. It was on such a morning (a mere 2 degrees!) that I pulled on my snowshoes for a hike in the park adjacent to our farm. The sky was clear and I was sure a beautiful sunrise would await me over the shores of Lake Michigan. The power plant was ahead of me for much of my hike, its smoke billowing pink in the pre-dawn light.
