National Catholic Reporter: Pope Francis' Laudato Si' positioned the church to be a prominent voice on climate change. But despite that energy, there's still a feeling that Catholics have the potential to do more.

Sr. Christine Imbali of the Assumption Sisters of Eldoret, in western Kenya, has been working to help low-income women and families end their reliance on her small community of Catholic religious women and other charitable groups. Instead of a charity, she wants to give families in the country's fifth-largest city the option to be self-sustaining and to contribute an important aspect of a healthy city — nutrition. Her idea: chickens.

Residents of a Boston rooming house run by an order of Catholic nuns earned a short-term victory last week when the owners agreed to suspend eviction proceedings against the few older women left in the building, pending a state inquiry into allegations of age discrimination.

Pope Francis has asked an Italian nun, who has been on the frontlines in the fight against human trafficking, to write this year's Way of the Cross meditations.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this random nun clip, Sister Maxine and Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon are joined by special guests: freshmen and sophomore students.

Horizons - In reading about our community's founder, Mother Theodore, what I observe in her interplay of real risk and humor is a lightness and freedom of heart that only comes from deep faith. I've come to the conclusion that we may need humor in these times more than ever.

It is a period of transformation in the nation's capital, but Catholic social justice organizations across the area have shown decades of dedication to cause and adaptability. Leaders of these organizations describe a diverse and vibrant D.C.-area Catholic community made of many different groups working in conjunction and collaboration.

The book contains the many voices of international sisters and their experiences in the U.S., and allows them to be heard and seen in a collective way.

What lessons have I learned? How has the year changed me interiorly? May I never forget and always be grateful that I live in a country which allows me options regarding where I live; and I realize how God has provided me the means to make such a choice. God has deepened in me a profound sense of how I am loved and cared for as God's unique creation.

Dozens of women religious are helping vulnerable families affected by Cyclone Idai, which swept through parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in mid-March. The devastation is worse than initially assessed, according to humanitarian aid agencies. At least 750 people have died, thousands have been displaced, nearly 2 million affected. "We are providing food rations to one hundred families with an average of six people per family every month starting now in order to alleviate hunger," said Sr. Marceline Mudambo of the Carmelite Nuns, working in eastern Zimbabwe.