Sr. Jane Mary Sorosiak, 84, a Sister of St. Francis of Sylvania, specializes in creating murals with religious and spiritual themes. She has been crafting murals for 38 years, working with clients across the United States. In all, she estimates she has completed nearly 100 murals since she arrived at Lourdes University in suburban Toledo, Ohio, to teach art in 1976.
by Jan Cebula
http://www.paceebene.org/GSR Today - “When are we going to learn?” It seems like I am asking myself that question more and more these days. Violence doesn’t work. It only leads to more heartache and pain, more hate and enmity. Overwhelming evidence that violence doesn’t work surrounds us. Yet, it doesn’t seem to sink in.
by Jill Day
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In a country where an estimated 1,400,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS and almost a million children under the age of 18 are orphaned by the disease, children too often assume roles as caregivers and heads of households. Helping those children learn practical skills to attend stricken parents and grandparents became a mission for Dominican Sr. Dominica Siegel.
A new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art titled "Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion & Desire" focuses on more than 50 of Albrecht Dürer's works from the museum's collection that contain female subjects. As the title reveals, those women were often saintly.
GSR Today - The first possible saint from New Mexico is being considered; Sr. Blandina Segale, Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, was known for her advocacy of Native American and Hispanic people in the early 1900s.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Can sisters always sing well? Hear from two of them about their views on "The Sound of Music" and how sisters were portrayed in the movie.
GSR Today - Global Sisters Report has posted numerous stories about the realities of migration, and we know that your feelings for the thousands of unaccompanied minors and others coming from Central America into the U.S. are ones of compassion, not revulsion: Catholic social justice wanting to be put into action. Here are some ways you can help.
by GSR Staff
"Peacemaking and contemplation are so intimately related that one can hardly exist without the other."
After spending nearly three decades as a Maryknoll missionary in eastern Africa, Sr. Rosemarie Milazzo has spent the last five years serving as an international peacekeeper in Iraq. Inspired at the age of 75 to devote her life to peace work, Milazzo joined Christian Peacemaker Teams in 2007, first working with First Nations people in northern Canada and then spending three months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before beginning her work in Kurdish Iraq.
by Joan Brown
It is increasingly vital to make the links between climate change, immigration, human trafficking, violence and political unrest. Was not Jesus about addressing controversial issues – systemic issues of poverty and injustice? Is caring for God’s creation and the human family really controversial? And if some believe it is – is this not the moral and soul issue of our time that Jesus invites us into?
