“You have to accompany them. For each one, the journey is different.”

GSR Today - Since Global Sisters Report is about facilitating connections among women religious around the world – and to the wider world – we’re happy to share the efforts of a community looking toward the future. The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. reported on how the Dominican Sisters of Hope have revamped, retooled and relaunched their website.

Nothing quite wakes up the world like a snowstorm! The power of snowflakes is in their togetherness. And so it is in the Christian life. We are stronger together. In religious life, this is particularly central. We are sisters because of our shared life. The title we are blessed to assume implies that our primary identity is one of relationship.

Jesus called, 'Cast your nets on the other side!' As disciples perhaps we too are called to recognize 'the other side' may actually bring us life.

See for Yourself - News reports this week announced that the film, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” rocketed to Number 1 as the box office draw for Valentine’s Day weekend 2015. Is anyone surprised at that? I’m not. After all, when the Catholic church specifically singles out this movie as something not to go see, isn’t that all the more reason to go see it?

GSR Today - I learned about last week’s triple homicide in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Twitter. Checking Twitter on my phone is one of the first things I do in the morning, and I didn’t have to scroll long to see post after post both about Deah Bakarat; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha. There was also a lot of talk about the lack of media attention given to their deaths.

The Social and Charitable Services Society, one of Vietnam’s youngest institutes and societies for women who are not professed religious, was founded by the late Bishop Paul Nguyen Thanh Hoan of Phan Thiet diocese in southern Vietnam in 1995. Sr. Mary Nguyen Thi Quynh Nga, 33, is an herbalist who entered the society in 2002. She currently serves as its superior. 

Español/Spanish-language version of 'An open letter to the Great Generation' - Sí, la Hermana Dot perteneció a la Gran Generación. Ustedes, – la gran generación que escuchó el llamado del Concilio Vaticano II, que transformó la vida religiosa con la energía que le dedicaron a la renovación, que reescribió nuestras constituciones, que aprendió que todos éramos el “Pueblo de Dios” y celebró esta identidad, que optó preferencialmente por los pobres, caminó y vivió con las personas en los márgenes, que escribió una teología que nos enseñó quién era Dios, su creación y quiénes somos como iglesia – sí, ustedes, la gran generación de mujeres valientes, atrevidas, fuertes, sin miedo, abiertas al riesgo y la experimentación.

In honor of Sr. Dorothy Stang: Before the phrase “preferential option for the poor” was coined, Dorothy, from listening to the Gospel in church, school and family had absorbed the message, and it was deepened in her religious formation during the years of the Vatican II renewal.