See for Yourself - As our country celebrates the 120th anniversary of Labor Day on September 1, and while I’m sincerely grateful for the blessing of working, right now I’m also thinking of a friend whose job isn’t such a blessing. The other day this out-of-state friend, Marie, phoned.

Here he goes again! Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sounded off once more about the shortcomings of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Two years ago, when Cardinal Gerhard Müller criticized the Leadership Conference of Women Religious for promoting radical feminist themes, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith offered a stark reminder that feminism has no place in the Roman Catholic church. In his most recent interview in L'Osservatore Romano (the Vatican's "semi-official" newspaper), Müller further indicates that any suggestion of misogyny on the part of the hierarchy is a claim best answered with a punch line.

Our Lady of the Mission sisters provide education services during the summer to children of migrant workers who come to the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City and are generally behind grade level. Their work helps gain the students entry into the public school system later.

GSR Today - "We hear a lot about world governments and organizations sending financial aid to Iraq, but the refugee gets the least – we do not know or understand why. People lost almost everything; they cannot even afford to buy milk or formula for their children."

Nature and technology are at odds today. “Nature is not an object that we must strive to overpower by our inventiveness,” scientist Alfred Kracher writes, “rather we ourselves are part of nature and need to acknowledge nature’s autonomy for the sake of our own survival.” Kracher argues that ecology and technology form competing myths and we are caught between these myths today.

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Grace Sbrissa, a Sister of St. Joseph, never imagined she would have any career but teaching. But after being appointed as her community’s treasurer and earning a subsequent master’s degree in business administration to prepare for the role, Sbrissa soon found herself on a different path: financial planning.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Sr. Jill Underdahl, CSJ, talks about the lifestyle changes that one undergoes when taking vows to become a nun, in this live broadcase from St. Paul, Minn., in March when A Nun's Life was on one of its Motherhouse Road Trips.

The Vatican's guardian of orthodoxy and the force behind Rome's investigation of American nuns has renewed his criticism of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, downplaying the group's size and importance and arguing that the Vatican is trying to help them recover their religious identity so they don't die out. "Above all we have to clarify that we are not misogynists, we don't want to gobble up a woman a day!" Cardinal Gerhard Müller told L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper, in the edition published on Monday.