by Kelly Litt
Contributor
June 29, 2015
GSR Today - It took a radical notion about serving the marginalized to encourage Sr. Eileen Reilly to accept a job at the United Nations.
This story appears in the Laudato Si' encyclical feature series. View the full series.
by Susan Rose Francois
NCR Contributor
June 26, 2015
Much has already been written about Laudato Si’, the encyclical released last week by Pope Francis on the care for our common home. Initial reactions range from the celebratory to the critical and come from all corners of church and society. Even my 81-year-old father asked me on the phone the other day if I was excited about the encyclical. To be truthful, excited is a mild descriptor.
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by Kirsten Rotz
Contributor
June 26, 2015
Notes from the Field - When I applied to be a VIDES volunteer, living in community with the sisters was a strategic move. One, I wanted to be living in a safe environment; I trusted that a community of nuns would be able to provide that. Two, I wanted to grow in my faith. Three, I particularly like structure and order, which life in community promises.
by GSR Staff
June 26, 2015
GSR Today - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today 5-4 that same-sex marriage is constitutional and that states must recognize such marriages performed in other states. National Catholic Reporter has reaction from Catholic bishops and others here.
Sandra Smithson, a School Sister of St. Francis, has spent over 60 years in education and health missions in Latin America and the U.S. In 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee, she founded Project Reflect, whose mission is "transforming communities through education and policy reform," and she continues working with poor and minority children, her "little peanuts," toward that end.
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by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
June 25, 2015
See for Yourself - At a national professional association meeting recently, I found myself sitting at a luncheon table next to a healthcare software developer from California.
June 25, 2015
Notre Dame Sr. Thecla Tran Thi Giong, who earned a doctoral degree in counseling and psychotherapy from the Philippines in 1993, has taught at universities and in inter-congregational theological formation programs for men and women religious for more than 20 years in Vietnam. Giong is among the first Catholic nuns who were allowed to study abroad in the late 1980s after the country was reunified under communist rule in 1975 when the war ended.
by GSR Staff
June 25, 2015
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
June 25, 2015
Since 2001, more than 2,000 women have not only found safety but learned skills at St. Monica's Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda, directed by Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe. In her words: "They are fighting back with needles and sewing machines and not with machine guns."
This story appears in the Laudato Si' encyclical feature series. View the full series.
by GSR Staff
June 25, 2015
"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience."