by Michele Morek
July 22, 2019
GSR Today - As a group, millipedes have survived mass extinctions that killed off dominant organisms like trilobites and dinosaurs. Will our smaller individual religious community groups similarly last for millennia?
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July 22, 2019
Religious life in the United States and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious are changing. But St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn is uniquely prepared to lead an organization facing transformation. "I believe in this life, and I believe it is critical to the furthering of the Gospel," she says, but "the expression of the life is taking on a whole new form."
Rekha Kerketta, from the Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand, India, is a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. With an undergraduate degree in Hindustani classical music and graduate work in religious studies, she has taught Hindi and English in various schools and is a visiting professor in Feminist Theology at the Regional Theologate Jesuit Center, Arunodaya, Ranchi. Presently she is completing a doctorate degree at St. Albert's College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, about dissertation on the role of Christian Kurukh women in the church in Chotanagpur.
July 19, 2019
Leaders of women religious — including St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn and Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell — were among the hundreds of Catholics who gathered on Capitol Hill July 18 to express their disgust at the treatment of immigrant children.
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
July 19, 2019
Without losing sight of the current state of affairs in our country and our world, I’m intrigued by the lessons that the lunar landing offers to us today.
by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Contributor
July 18, 2019
Amid times of sadness as colleagues died and ministries were reconfigured or surrendered, women religious have not been overwhelmed. Instead they have brought skill, resilience and profound faith to the task of planning for their individual and corporate futures.
by GSR Staff
July 17, 2019
GSR will use the grants — $3 million from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and $225,000 from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation — to continue its work as a top news source about women religious, providing comprehensive news and analysis.
by Christine Schenk
July 17, 2019
"Mary Magdalene" is a perfect way to celebrate the "Apostle to the Apostles" on or around her July 22 feast day. It is both cinematically beautiful and well-grounded in contemporary scholarship about the religious and political context in which Jesus and Mary sought God and God's reign.
by Jane Marie Bradish
July 17, 2019
Summer is jubilee time, and the remembering and storytelling that comes with it often includes the question "Who brought you to the convent?" Early on, this seemingly simple question gave me pause; I couldn't answer it.
by Catholic News Service
July 17, 2019
A group of Mercy sisters has been honored by the New Hampshire Coalition Against the Death Penalty for the key role they played in making New Hampshire the 21st state in the country to abolish the death penalty.