Sr. Helen Maher Garvey, BVM, is an organizational consultant for religious congregations. Presently she serves on the Board of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company. She was the director of the LCWR History Exhibit, Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America. Garvey held the position of Director of the Office of Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Lexington for 10 years. She served in the presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) from 1986 to 1989 and was a U.S.
Ilia Delio, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Washington, D.C., is the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of 16 books, including Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness (Orbis Books 2015), and the general editor of the series Catholicity in an Evolving Universe.
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by Clare Nolan
NCR Contributor
May 5, 2014
Three Good Shepherd Sisters started work in Kolwezi last October to start a school, agriculture co-operative and other programs to help people who live in poverty amid a land rich with natural resources; see what progress they made in only four months.
Sr. Clare Nolan recently retired as training coordinator of the Good Shepherd International Justice Office. Good Shepherd is an international woman's religious congregation that is involved in providing social services in about 70 counties, with a particular focus on women and girls in vulnerable situations. The organization has special consultative status with ECOSOC (Economic Social Council) of the U.N.
by Sharon Abercrombie
May 5, 2014
From NCRonline.org - A recently released free online booklet – Earth as Our Home – does just that, offering tips for living more sustainably with the planet. The 16-page illustrated pamphlet comes from the Catholic Sisters for a Healthy Earth, an environmental group comprised of eight women religious congregations.
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
May 5, 2014
I remember when I was at the Hilton Fund for Sisters and traveled around the world visiting projects, I often wished there would be some way for others to share in my experiences of sisters’ creativity, energy and commitment to people in need of education, health care and a myriad of other services.
by GSR Staff
May 5, 2014
When Pope Francis announced the long awaited names of his commission on the protection of children in March, it was noted that four of the eight lay members are women, one a victim of clerical sex.
May 5, 2014
From NCRonline.org - The Vatican chief of doctrine has accused U.S. women religious leaders of not abiding by a reform agenda the Vatican imposed on their leadership organization following a doctrinal assessment of the group.
by Jill Day
Contributing writer and editor
May 5, 2014
In Nairobi’s traffic-clogged maelstrom, Catholic sisters go quietly about their calling, helping the dying, supporting the destitute, educating the impoverished and healing the sick. It would be easy for them to be invisible, some 3,000 women among 3.3 million people sprawling across a highlands plateau in eastern Africa. If not for their grit. If not for their faith.
Zambian born and a Zimbabwe resident, Jill Day writes on people and lifestyles. In addition to working for the Global Sisters Report, she edits farming and fashion magazines in Zimbabwe and has been nominated as editor of the year in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, where she worked previously. Last year she ghosted a biographical cookery book judged the world's second most entertaining cookbook in the Paris International Cookery Book Award.