"For the past forty years, [Sr. Hilkert] has leavened and led the theological community in major academic institutions, international venues, and our guild itself," said president Kristin Heyer at the ceremony.
To combat human trafficking in Vietnam, Catholic sisters support survivors and act to protect vulnerable people by establishing avenues to employment and sustainable livelihoods.
Each month, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual creates a feminist liturgy that honors wise women, celebrates holidays or raises a feminist justice issue.
Social Service Sr. Elizabeth Lopez is as comfortable serving a bowl of soup to migrants on one side of the border as she is fighting for them in immigration court on the other.
For nearly two years, the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes in Canada opened its doors to filmmaker Lessandro Sócrates, resulting in the documentary "De l'autre côté" ("On the Other Side").
Locals took refuge in sister-run schools after severe storms in May and April destroyed their homes, with sisters offering food and support in the aftermath.
"Accompanying the Indigenous people and listening to their dreams has been a reaffirmation of my vocation," says Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, provincial of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary in Peru.
Dozens of sisters from the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya gathered June 14 in Nairobi for the launch of a media-training project, the Communication Network for Catholic Sisters.