"Next time we meet, we might be the Consecrated Religious of the Americas," said LCWR executive director Carol Zinn at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Catholic Sisters Initiative Convening in Mexico City Oct. 29-31.
St. Paul de Chartres Sr. Marie-Agnes Suwanna Buasap founded Talitha Kum Kids in Thailand, training teachers and youth to raise awareness of human trafficking and ways to prevent it.
"To live this vocation is to live in friendship — with God, with others, and with creation," one sister writes. "That friendship, ever deepening, remains the greatest gift of my vocation."
Sr. Albertine Debacker has become an unexpected but powerful voice for the church, reaching hundreds of thousands of young people where they are — online.
The sisters' work had always been about care. But the climate crisis demanded a new approach. They were not just feeding bodies; they were nourishing souls.
A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called "a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters."
In camps in Benue State, Sr. Mary Ojonugwa Unwuchola and other Nigerian sisters console displaced survivors grieving lost loved ones and lost homes. She does not offer easy answers, but presence, prayer and acts of care.
Sciano had not planned to enter religious life. She wanted to be a lawyer, specifically one who works with needy families. And then there was the matter of a boy she met at the retreat.
