by Georgia Perry
Geraldine Kearney, a Sister of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St. Benedict, has spent the last several years educating people in Australia and throughout the world about the impacts of climate change on low-lying islands in the Pacific.
COP21 Paris - Negotiations toward a global climate treaty have ebbed and flowed here, according to several U.S. sisters observing the proceedings at the Paris climate talks. Still, they sense a deal to emerge, in part due to the host country.
by GSR Staff
"Social and political charity is not exhausted in relationships between individuals but spreads into the network formed by these relationships, which is precisely the social and political community; it intervenes in this context seeking the greatest good for the community in its entirety."
GSR Today - Fun fact: one of the most frustrating things that’s ever happened to me as a journalist is also one of the most edifying. I say it was both because, on the one hand, the experience made months of reporting obsolete — but it also proved that my news instinct was dead-on.
Eileen Purcell was a co-founder of the Sanctuary Movement and the first executive director of the SHARE Foundation during the war years in El Salvador. In 2013, she received an honorary doctorate from the Jesuit University of San Francisco in recognition of her ongoing defense of human rights in El Salvador and labor and immigrant rights in the United States. She currently works as a labor organizer with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker IBEW Local 1245.
by Camille D'Arienzo
NCR Contributor
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.
by Catholic News Service
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
by GSR Staff
"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."
by Elise D. García
Contributor
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.
by Judith Best
Contributor
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?
