Global Sisters Report traveled to Concordia, Kansas, last month to visit with Sr. Marcia Allen, president of the Sisters of St. Joseph based there. Allen is president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; she officially will be installed at the LCWR assembly in August.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - Language doesn't possess a word horrible enough to express it. Dastardly? No. Horrendous? No. Unadulterated evil? No. None of these is enough as we describe the awful truth and stark reality. On Jan. 27, 2015, the world marked the 70th anniversary of the Russian liberation of Auschwitz.
by Tom Gallagher
Rebirth of Catholic hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti - It has been just over five years since the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti destroyed the hospital in Haiti's capital. The Catholic Health Association helped fund the building of a new St. Francis de Sales Hospital, which was dedicated Jan. 15. Daughter of Charity Sr. Carol Keehan, CEO of Catholic Health Association, talks about the partnerships that made this piece of recovery possible.
by Jan Cebula
GSR Today - Following the posting of my last GSR Today blog Getting on the learning curve about human trafficking awareness, one of our readers tipped me off to a story from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s about a couple of Sisters of Mercy and truckers.
Three Stats and a Map - In case you missed it, earlier this week, a blizzard buried parts of the United States in deep, deep snow. Areas of Connecticut and Massachusetts saw as much as 30 inches, and New York City was preemptively shut down to keep people safe. But of course, as is almost always the case these days, the snow storm brought out the climate change skeptics.
by GSR Staff
"“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness."
by N.J. Viehland
Leading Filipino Catholics welcome pronouncements Pope Francis made on contraception, family and marriage when he met with thousands of families in Manila Jan. 16. Francis reiterated at the Manila meeting the church's teaching on human life, marriage and family promulgated by Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. At the same time, the pope "offered leeway" for particular cases where the ban on artificial contraception may not apply, noted Benedictine Sr. Mary John Mananzan.
GSR Today - Last week, I was bewildered when a male reporter asked Eugenie Bouchard, a tennis pro ranked seventh in the world, to comment on her outfit and to “give us a twirl” after her impressive and decisive victory in the second round of the Australian Open.
by GSR Staff
“ . . . communion with God is life and light, and enjoyment of the good things . . .”
From A Nun's Life podcasts - We respond to a listener who recently became a Christian and is grieving her mother's death, and she wonders if grief is a rejection of faith. Also: A Nun’s Life Ministry has appointed a new program director, Sr. Julie Myers, OSF, who starts Feb. 2
