"They acted on their wits; I am just so full of admiration for them. They knew what was ahead: arrest, torture and deportation, execution. The risks were enormous," said Clodagh Finn, author of The Irish in the Resistance.
In Ghana 20 Catholic sisters from 10 congregations gathered to receive media, communication and networking training, to enable them to tell and publish their own stories.
While we're thrilled with the growth we've established in the first year of GSR en español, we're more excited thinking about all that can still be done to expand our international readership — all with the power of language.
GSR has become a close-knit and expansive community where we feel like sisters, united in weaving the dream of a shared prophetic mission and a passion for communicating life in all its dimensions.
I encountered God in the movie theater watching "Manjummel Boys." The true story behind it illustrates Jesus' words: "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."
The film is also meant as a tribute to Catholic sisters everywhere, whose work the executive producer believes is often overlooked and not appreciated enough within the church or by the wider society.
When Francis Xavier reached India or Mother Cabrini arrived in the U.S., neither believed they would make converts overnight. They had to learn the language and culture. So, too, with internet evangelization.
