Opinion

"Cultivating a culture of synodality is filled with promise," writes Sr. Colleen Gibson, "though not without the growing pains that come with allowing our hearts and minds to be reformed by the Spirit." 

"Until a world at peace refuses to be warmakers, our own lives are in danger of dying for what we have created," Sr. Joan Chittester writes. 

The Life - Our sister panelists consider: When have you engaged with people whose life experiences are vastly different from your own, and how did these interactions transform your long-held ideas about life?

In a decades-old letter, Mother Teresa provides a definition of giving that is as simple as Jesus' teaching about the poor widow's contribution: a gift from abundance does not have the same meaning as a gift with a sacrifice.

Christine Schenk draws parallels between this summer's politics and the Gospel story of Lazarus and Dives.

El premiado documental With This Light retrata la vida y obra de la Hna. María Rosa Legoll, quien fundó escuelas, orfanatos y programas de formación que han ayudado a más de 87 000 niños. En entrevista para GSR, Nicole Bernardi-Reis, productora y codirectora de la película, relata cómo capturó la humanidad, humor y sabiduría de una mujer cuyo impacto transformador la llevó a ser conocida como la Madre Teresa de Honduras.

Rome's Dicastery for the Clergy recently upheld an unprecedented third merger appeal from St. Louis Catholics determined to defend their parish homes. Could this be a sign of change?

We are, it seems, not asking the right questions, argues Sr. Joan Chittister. Which means that we will therefore be without the answers we need to save the entire country.