Lay-led organizations offer working models at every level from international to parish. The most illuminating model I've seen is the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and its congregations – all lay women like me. Very quietly, with no spotlights, they've been evolving innovative ways to be a community of communities since the 1960s.  

GSR Today - Catholic sisters have engaged in child care for hundreds of years. Today, we acknowledge that institutions did not and do not always provide the best way to ensure children's safety, socialization and health.

The Life: Being neighbor is about relationship, trust, being known and accepted, being there to share joys and sorrows. Sisters are out in the world, living among the people they serve, sharing their charism and sense of community and prayer with anyone they encounter. This month, wrapping up the 2018-2019 panelists' participation, GSR asked them: Are there meaningful interactions with others for you, personally, or for your community in your neighborhood? If yours is a changing neighborhood, how are you responding to the changes?

Honored as one of the U.S. State Department's "heroes" in combatting human trafficking, Comboni Sr. Gabriella Bottani urged action to fight the situations that make people, especially women and children, vulnerable to trafficking.

Interview with the 90-year-old grandma of a sister-in-training: Sassy and direct, Grandma's never been known to hold back her views, so I'd imagined she'd respond to my questions with refreshing frankness. Now, with her memory failing, I'm worried I waited too long. But I want to try.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, high school students are livestreaming to talk to two Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in Tampa, Florida.

Beyond originally requesting the creation of the women deacons commission, the International Union of Superiors General has pressed for greater involvement of women religious in synods of bishops and in the workings of the Vatican office that oversees the world's religious orders. Claretian Missionary Sr. Jolanda Kafka, UISG's new president, said she believed that such advocacy for women's leadership had now become obligatory for her organization, which represents some 450,000 sisters and nuns worldwide.

I recently did a two-week rotation at the San Diego Rapid Response Network shelter, working with refugees and migrants. There, I found Catholic social teaching embedded in my experiences.

The "seasoned mapmakers" that make up the 14 congregations of the Sisters of Charity Federation came together for its first assembly ever held. The energy was palpable at the event, as attendees from 29 countries celebrated a unity of purpose.