Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger is New York and international correspondent to Global Sisters Report and also writes on humanitarian, international and cultural issues for NCR. He covers the work of Catholic sisters at the United Nations, and in the last decade has reported from Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, South Sudan, Haiti, Lebanon, Italy, Ghana, Uganda and El Salvador, among other locales. Chris has won numerous awards from the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council and the Religion News Association. The Catholic Media Association named Chris one of its 2024 Writers of the Year. He is the author of five books on humanitarian themes, most recently Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine, published by Morehouse. 

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Q&A with Sr. Dianne Bergant, Old Testament scholar who taught Pope Leo XIV

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