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Carmen Jiménez explains to visitors the Comuna 13 cemetery's wall of portraits honoring victims and their mothers. Among them are haunting composite images: half the face is that of a missing son or daughter, the other half their grieving mother — their features fused into a single, powerful symbol of loss and remembrance. (Tracy L. Barnett)

Reporter's Notebook: Walking Medellin's Comuna 13 with Carmen Jiménez

By Tracy L. Barnett
Bladimir Arteaga, or Blacho as he is fondly known, is pictured with Alén, a video producer and GSR collaborator, who is also a musician, on March 25, 2025, at the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in San José de Apartadó, Colombia. (Tracy L. Barnett)

Reporter's Notebook: Joy as an act of resistance in Colombia's peace community

By Tracy L. Barnett
Consuelo Garcia del Cid, 66, a survivor and advocate for the cause, reacts before a ceremony in Madrid June 9, 2025, by the Spanish Confederation of Religious Entities to apologize to the survivors of Catholic moral rehabilitation institutes in Spain, where thousands of women and girls suffered harsh treatment during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. (OSV News/Reuters/Juan Medina)

'Not forgotten, not forgiven' say the survivors of the patronato to the church in Spain

By Helga Leija
Consolota Missionary Sr. Simona Brambilla, the keynote speaker for the UISG general assembly, shared stories of women religious who had lived with Gospel courage even in dangerous mission work. (Courtesy of UISG)

UISG assembly: Sisters in conflict zones display power of solidarity, fragility

By Joyce Meyer
Copies of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," are stacked on a table prior to a presentation on the encyclical June 30, 2015, at U.N. headquarters in New York City. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Viewpoints

Laudato Si' called all to climate action, but omitted women from the conversation

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Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, appears onscreen at the United Nations' General Assembly Hall during a town hall meeting with the U.N. secretary general and civil society at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (UN/Evan Schneider)

Catholic sisters: Exemplars of landmark Beijing Declaration

By Chris Herlinger
After signing her handwritten monastic vows, she removes the ring of her former community, leaves it with the document at the altar and after singing "Receive me, o Lord as you have promised that I may live, disappoint me not in my hope" three times, she receives the Benedictine ring, as a sign of her total incorporation into the Benedictine community of Mount St. Scholastica. (Courtesy of Helga Leija)

Professing monastic vows with dragons at the gate

By Helga Leija
Signs by Ukrainian Americans support Ukrainian independence during a celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day, Aug. 24, in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

After a week of heartbreak about Ukraine, truth still wins out

By Chris Herlinger
The priest stands wearing white habit staring out of window.

As third anniversary of war looms, Ukrainian Catholics cling to hope

By Chris Herlinger, Religion News Service
Srs. Rocio Garcia of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe (Father Plancarte) Mexico, Lismy Parayil of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel of India, Karolina Luczak of the Sisters of the Holy Nazareth from Poland, and Helga Leija of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, in the United States wait for the pope's private audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall Jan. 25, 2025. (Helga Leija)

Global Jubilee Conference: Alive with the spirit of Pentecost

By Helga Leija
Workers at a camp in Terrain Toto, Haiti, construct transitional shelters provided by Catholic Relief Services for those left homeless in the 2010 earthquake. Catholic Relief Services was among the humanitarian entities deeply affected by USAID cuts. (OSV News/Bob Roller)
NCR Voices

Slander aside, foreign aid wins goodwill for US — and saves lives

By Chris Herlinger
"The Presentation in the Temple" (ca. 1430) by Alvaro Pirez (Artvee)

A light of revelation: The power of witness of consecrated women

By Helga Leija
People hold candles at Mass with Pope Francis on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day for Consecrated Life in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 2, 2024. GSR is celebrating the 2025 World Day of Consecrated Life with a special event on Thursday, Jan. 30. (CNS/Lola Gomez)

GSR and Liturgical Press offer special event Jan. 30 to mark World Day of Consecrated Life

By Gail DeGeorge
The House of the Virgin Mary, about miles (5 kilometers) from Ephesus, is said to be where Mary lived after Jesus' crucifixion and Pentecost when she was with the apostles. She traveled to Ephesus with the apostle St. John, whom Jesus instructed from the cross to care for his mother. (GSR photo/Gail DeGeorge)

At Mary's House in Ephesus, a bond between mothers comes to life

By Gail DeGeorge
Sr. Helga Leija with sisters from Argentina, Dominican Republic and Peru during the V Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Religious Life, held Nov. 22-24 in Cordoba, Argentina. (GSR photo/Helga Leija)

CLAR calls religious to be 'radically human' amid challenges

By Helga Leija
(GSR artwork/Olivia Bardo)

'Wisdom from the Global Sisterhood': Sentinels of Advent and Christmas

By Helga Leija
Sr. Hedwig Muse, a member of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu in Uganda and a civil lawyer who works for the Association of Sisters of Kenya, speaks against a proposed finance bill to the Kenyan government parliamentary committee in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Hedwig Muse)

Sister lawyers — canonical or civil — bring unique perspectives to role

By Joyce Meyer
Sr. Barbara Reid, president of Catholic Theological Union and a Dominican of Grand Rapids, Michigan, talks to participants during a biblical study tour of Greece and Turkey, "In the Footsteps of St.Paul." Here she is near the entrance to the archeological site of ancient Philippi, where she explains how St. Paul honors many women who were leaders in the Early Christian communities. (GSR photo/Gail DeGeorge)

In St. Paul's footsteps, a history of women in the church comes to life

By Gail DeGeorge
Illustrations of the six Catholic female mystics in history from The Mystics Would Like a Word, written by Shannon K. Evans, NCR culture and spirituality editor. The illustrations are clockwise, from upper left, St. Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, St. Hildegard of Bingen, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena. (Illustrations by Dani/andhersaints)

Book on mystics explores wisdom from sisters for modern times

By Shannon Evans
Peria seedlings (Unsplash/Mohd Hasrul Nizam Bin Sabani)
Science

Sisters take to WhatsApp to exchange advice in sustainable agriculture

By Joyce Meyer