Mary Ewens is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. As an educator she has taught in grade school, high school and college and has been an administrator at the university level. She received the "Distinguished Historian Award" of the Conference on the History of Women Religious for her contributions to sisters' history, including chapters in 10 books.
by GSR Staff
February 11, 2015
"For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, the orphans, and the unassisted; The blessing of those in extremity came upon me, and the heart of the widow I made joyful. I wore my honesty like a garment; justice was my robe and my turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame."
February 11, 2015
GSR Today - My recent two-week journey through Kenya showed me that sometimes the best way to change negative perceptions is hard work, faith, and, most of all, patience.
February 11, 2015
Three Stats and a Map - If you have been paying any attention to U.S. news, you’re probably well aware that there’s a measles outbreak on the West Coast. The outbreak started in California, where – as of Monday – there were at least 123 reported cases of the measles in California, and according to the Los Angeles Times, the disease has now spread to seven other U.S. states and Mexico.
February 11, 2015
GSR Today - A gathering of the leadership of the world’s international women religious orders began to wind down Tuesday at a conference center in Nemi, Italy, as some 70 sisters hashed out what they had heard, learned and discerned in the course of a week together.
This story appears in the Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities feature series. View the full series.
February 10, 2015
Dominican Sr. Donna Markham has been named the new leader of Catholic Charities USA. Like many women religious she has been noted for working on the systemic roots of problems, not just isolated issues. And that aspect of comprehensive problem-solving is one of the things Markham loves most about CCUSA, noting that the organization has been called not just a safety net for economically poor people, but also a trampoline to lift them out of poverty.
February 10, 2015
GSR Today - Some "apps" (smartphone-based programs) are genuinely useful, and those are really my favorites. So, it was a bit out of character for me, that when the developers of the app Instapray sent me some promotional materials at work last week, I was immediately skeptical and pretty sure I would never ever download it. Never.
This story appears in the Apostolic Visitation feature series. View the full series.
February 10, 2015
In January 2009, historian and Sister of Mercy of the Americas Dolores Liptak got a call from Mother Mary Clare Millea. Millea had just been asked to head the apostolic visitation to U.S. women religious, and in preparation for the task, she wanted to know more about the history of the sisters' U.S. experience — a topic on which Liptak has edited several books. Last month, Liptak talked to Global Sisters Report about her experience as part of the team.
by Sharon Abercrombie
February 10, 2015
Ten years after the murder of Notre Dame de Namur Sr. Dorothy Stang, her alma mater is honoring the beloved “angel of the Amazon” with a week of special events marking her ongoing legacy of service in the mission field. Stang, a 1964 graduate of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, Calif., spent nearly 40 years in Brazil as an advocate for indigenous people and the rainforest. She was killed Feb. 12, 2005, by two hired gunmen while walking along a dirt road in Anapu, in Brazil’s Para state.
by Ilia Delio
February 9, 2015
To be a creature of God is to be brought into relationship in such a way that the divine mystery is expressed in each concrete existence. Soul is the mirror of creaturely relatedness that reflects the vitality of divine Love. Love is not a thought or an idea, it is the transcendent dimension of life itself, that which reaches out to another, touches the other and is touched by the other.