Sr. Angelina Julom enjoys seeing patients at the Nazareth Psycho-Social Wellness Center for Individuals and Families in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines. As a nun, she finds people trust her even more as a psychologist.
"I sure didn't join the community thinking about the leadership team," Presentation Sr. Vicky Larson said, adding that after 19 years of teaching she felt "a little nudge." She's now LCWR president-elect.
For the last three years, Religious Sisters of Charity have been involved in ensuring people have access to clean drinking water in rural Malawi with water pumps, as well as initiating irrigation farming.
Sr. Theresa Kulandai, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception from India and director of Home of Joy, works to provide education, food, clothing and shelter to orphaned girls in Lusaka.
Sr. Teagon Andre Maria had already earned a nursing degree before she finally answered the call to religious life, joining the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and taking first vows in June.
GSR talks to Sr. Jeana Visel, a Sister of St. Benedict at the Monastery Immaculate Conception, about her ministry as an iconographer who teaches about icons at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana.
Salvatorian Sr. Hildegard Enzenhofer worked as administrator of Beit Emmaus Home for the elderly and disabled in the Palestinian village of Qubeibeh, nestled between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank.
