by Onize Ohikere
Contributor
Sponsored by four U.S. communities of women religious, the Transitions ministry based in Spokane, Washington, provides medium-term housing, job training through a lively cafe and bakery, as well as support and counseling to up to 40 women each year who are learning to turn over a new leaf and become independent.
Brett Davis is a Brooklyn, New York-based photographer and writer. He has a bachelor's degree in American studies from Georgetown University. Brett is currently working on an oral history book project about Catholic female religious communities.
by GSR Staff
"Share what you have instead of sharing only if you have extra to give away."
From A Nun's Life podcasts - What things can I do to make Advent a really meaningful season for me? Find inspiration from some key figures of Advent in this clip from Sr. Candyce Rekart's webinar "Engaging Advent."
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
As we enter deeper into Advent, the sense of anticipation builds as we await Emmanuel, God-with-us. All around us are signs that the time is drawing near. Each day brings a flood of new things online — tweets from the Advent readings, YouTube videos for DIY nativity sets, Pinterest recipes for Advent cookies, Instagram Star-in-the-East images, Snaps from school Christmas musicals, and more.
A former Salvadoran Defense Minister linked to the 1980 slayings of Archbishop Oscar Romero and four U.S. churchwomen has lost a years-long battle to remain in the United States, sources connected to the case told NCR.
With James Hodge, Linda Cooper is co-author of Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas.
by GSR Staff
"The beginning of the world is not the work of chaos that owes its origin to another, but derives directly from a supreme Origin that creates out of love."
by Christine Schenk
Several weeks ago I had the privilege of meeting Nadiah Mohajir, a Muslim-American woman who spoke after a Chicago screening of "Radical Grace," a documentary about Catholic sisters working for justice. For over five years, Nadiah has provided health education programming to over 2,000 Muslim women and girls in the Chicagoland area and cities across the country.
Conflict between secular principles and growing fundamentalism, as well as rising inequality between rich and poor, worry the tiny Catholic community in Bangladesh. Strikes, school closings and street-protests led by the nation's opposition political party marked the start of 2015 for Bangladesh — a wobbly and uncomfortable moment for those who experienced it, said Maryknoll Sr. Miriam Perlewitz, who is based in the crowded capital of Dhaka.
