by Eucharia Madueke
Contributor
I was fortunate teaching “African World: Introduction to Contemporary Africa,” in the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. (where the student body is largely of African descent), fortunate because I was involved in assisting my students to work out and rework their African identity while examining the place of Africa in the contemporary global world.
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
GSR Today - The Sisters of Mary Morning Star is an Association of the Faithful, established in June 2014 in Bergara, Spain. There are about 250 members in 10 countries, including 10 women, ranging in age from 24 to 50, who live in the small town of Ghent, Minn. Their community belongs to an ancient cenobitic form of religious practice, which includes solitary and communal life.
by Anne E. Patrick
Contributor
The fact that so many holy founders have been celebrated by Catholics over the centuries suggests that some women religious who aspire to prophecy today may also be called to tasks of institutional creation and construction, tasks we might refer to “founding” and “re-founding,” and in some cases to institution maintenance as well.
Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, was William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and the author of Conscience and Calling: Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women’s Church Vocations. She was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a founding vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology.
by GSR Staff
"The mysteries rang true in daily life as bead by bead she prayed for a broken world."
Chaldean religious find peace and hope in Chicago - “We are who we are today because of our love for Christ," Fr. Fawaz Kako says. "In the midst of our chaos, he creates order.” Kako is is part of the ethnic Chaldean community of Catholics who have moved to the United States from the Middle East, where Christians have been a minority and persecuted for centuries. Chicago has two Chaldean Catholic parishes, where he, Fr. Sanharib Youkhana and Sr. Margaret Homa carry out their work ministering to about 7,000 people.
GSR Today - It is the U.S. federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life and ministry to fighting for the marginalized and poor people. So this week’s blog starts with the marginalized – in this case, unaccompanied minors attempting to immigrate to the United States – and ends with the poor, and a new way to identify them.
Catholic News Service
Book review - Born a Philadelphia heiress, St. Katharine Drexel divested herself of wealth and privilege to found the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, which has a particular mission of serving African-Americans and Native Americans. The two books complement each other and it is a happy coincidence that both would be published around the same time. Each author brings particular strengths to her task.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - How can I move ahead in life when I feel stuck in the past, like Lot's Wife? In this Random Nun Clip, we take a question from a listener who feels like Lot's Wife, looking back fondly at the past and then getting stuck like a pillar of salt, unable to move ahead.
Bethlehem is the most advanced Palestinian city in terms of dealing with the physically and mentally disabled and the most needy of the population, said Argentine Sr. Maria Pia, who greeted a group of the bishops at Hogar Nino Dios. The home is run by her order, the Sisters of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word.
