Chris Herlinger

Providence and Bon Secours Mercy have responded to New York Times stories that allege that the chains engaged in practices that took advantage of low-income patients. Statements provided to GSR call the reporting unfair.

Concerns remain that Russia might use a nuclear weapon amid war in Ukraine. Advocates for a nuclear-free world said this may be a moment for an issue that has hovered in the background for years to become more prominent.

Sisters and congregational advocates at the United Nations are disappointed but not surprised at the breakdown of a monthlong meeting examining ways to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.

A number of African women were recognized at the Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life for their contribution to the continent's development. 

Loreto Sr. Patty Murray recently received LCWR's 2022 Outstanding Leadership Award. Murray grew up in Dublin and says her love of Irish poetry, storytelling and ritual help affirm hope during her 50-year ministry.

Jyoti Thottam hopes readers of her book on Sisters of Charity of Nazareth who started a hospital in India in 1947 appreciate "what it was like to be a woman in this period, a woman really making her own way."

Seven Maryknoll Sisters are leading the congregation's discernment initiative based on the recognition that climate change is altering the nature of mission work.

Monday Starter - Government authorities declined to pay the COVID-19 compensation for the deaths of four Catholic sisters to their community in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Monday Starter: The U.N. resolution "is a wonderful step forward," said Sr. Durstyne "Dusty" Farnan. "It means more member states are mindful and committed to a safer environment for us all."

Monday Starter: A bishop in the Democratic Republic of Congo failed to follow Vatican guidelines in dealing with allegations of a 2020 rape of a 14-year-old girl by a priest, The Washington Post has reported.

A new video released by the International Union of Superiors General features sisters who speak on the importance of including marginalized and vulnerable communities in dialogue regarding development.

Monday Starter: The Sisters of Mercy have denounced the fatal June 27 police shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, in Akron, Ohio, and a mass shooting during a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

On the eve of the 11th anniversary of South Sudan's independence, a new book traces the history of Solidarity with South Sudan, noting that the collaborative 14-year-old ministry formed and run by female and male religious has been a model in humanitarian efforts across congregational lines. 

Reaction among Catholic women religious to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade included jubilation, acceptance and pledges to support women who are pregnant and to help with other women's issues.

Six women of the sovereign Shinnecock Indian Nation aim to protect the local bay on eastern Long Island from encroaching development. The women farm kelp in the bay waters, and have found allies in Catholic sisters.

Sr. Dorothy Hall, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt and lifelong New York City resident, talks to GSR about her ministry of feeding the hungry in Harlem. "I don't think anyone should be hungry," she says.

In response to the gun deaths of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Texas, U.S. sisters' congregations added their voices to that of Pope Francis and other faith leaders in calling for stronger gun control efforts.

Monday Starter: "Building bridges with people, especially those most in need, is a call to be closer to those who need us and are waiting for us," outgoing president Sr. Jolanta Kafka said at the UISG assembly in Rome.

At the end of UISG plenary in Rome, sisters shared this pledge: "I commit myself to live vulnerable synodality through service as a leader, animating it within the community, together with the people of God."

Pope Francis told leaders of women religious congregations that synodality is a way to affirm the original intentions of the founders of religious congregations while meeting the needs of a rapidly changing world.