I encountered God in the movie theater watching "Manjummel Boys." The true story behind it illustrates Jesus' words: "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."
I encountered God in the movie theater watching "Manjummel Boys." The true story behind it illustrates Jesus' words: "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."
The design for Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz's sculpture, titled "Let the Oppressed Go Free," is inspired, in part, by a 19th-century Canossian religious sister, now saint, Josephine Bakhita.
The COVID-19 lockdown in India "compelled me to look for a new way," says Sr. Sunitha Ruby of the Congregation of Carmelite Religious, and she took to YouTube to continue her mission of catechism and counseling.
The Life - Social media "has allowed us to be radically relational" with people worldwide, but it comes with dangers of addiction and physical disconnection. Our panelists look at religious life in the virtual world.
The Associated Church Press and the Religion Communicators Council have recognized Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter for work in 2020, including reporting, columns and book reviews.
The documentary "Rebel Hearts" tells the story of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary whose commitment to Vatican II renewal in the 1960s would lead them to defy a cardinal and form a new community.
GSR Today - I'm sure I join countless others looking forward to 2021, when we can hopefully hug our loved ones again. But before we say farewell to 2020, let's take a look back at the year in GSR reporting.
"We wanted a prayer book that would reflect who we are." Some congregations of women religious in the U.S. have their own versions of the Liturgy of the Hours — the daily prayer of the church.
Sr. Ardeth Platte, a Dominican order nun who fought for nuclear disarmament and later served as an inspiration for a character on the popular Netflix show "Orange Is the New Black," died in her sleep at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30.
