A shareholder's resolution led by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace calls for Citigroup to examine its efforts to respect the human rights of Indigenous people in the projects it finances and invests in.
At their annual CLAR leadership gathering, this year held in Honduras, Latin American men and women religious reflected on their role as a synodal church amid political instability, persecution and economic inequality.
These 10 years have flown by. If the next 10 are in any way as rich and fulfilling, I will have had a most amazing career, indeed, writes GSR national correspondent Dan Stockman.
From A Nun's Life podcasts – Listeners frequently ask "A Nun's Life" about vocations — calls to religious life, or married life or even parenthood. In this clip, sisters weigh in.
Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man, "Paulo G.," in Uberlandia, Brazil, as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Elena Guerra, an Italian nun who founded the Oblates of the Holy Spirit.
The apostolic visitation and doctrinal assessment were controversial, but 10 years after those tense times, sisters say their relationship with officials in Rome is radically different.
"I think the diminishment we are facing is almost forcing us to look around at each other, and as we have said in my community, 'This is who we are. This is all we've got.' "
A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork nationally for the first time and reiterate a message of love.
The filing includes an affidavit from Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach warning that once the association of contemplative orders the Vatican appointed to govern the sisters is in control, it can do anything it wishes, including taking the monastery.