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Plus, the Pentecost Project at the Vatican offers journalism training courses to sisters, and the Religious Formation Conference honors Sr. Ellen Dauwer.

Associated Church Press also honored a National Catholic Reporter staff writer. Plus, the Religion Communicators Council awards a Global Sisters Report correspondent with best in class reporting.

"We are deeply grateful for his humble acceptance of his election and his willingness to serve the church and the wider world at this critical moment," wrote the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Pope Francis invited all Catholics to the table in deliberating the future of the church. Sisters involved in those synods believe there's no turning back — even with a new pope.

Plus, UISG plenary assembly opens May 5, and U.S. sisters take to open letters and billboards to encourage compassion and humanity in government policies.

Catholic sisters and organizations mourn his loss and hail his legacy, particularly his attention to the marginalized.

Pope Francis, who elevated the status of women, and especially women religious, within the Catholic Church more than any pontiff in history, died early April 21. He was 88.

Plus, cloistered Illinois sisters adopt solar energy; an Indian court denies bail for a nun facing arrest after she was accused of conversion; services held for slain Haitian sisters.

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet hosted a day of events at St. Joseph's Academy, marking the marches' 60th anniversary, celebrating the St. Joseph sisters who took part, and unveiling archival items that are now preserved there.

CWR's Region 7, which includes congregations in Indiana and Michigan, hosts its first regional assembly, focusing on hope in religious life.

Plus, the National Religious Vocation Conference offers intercultural workshops; Network to host Stations of the Cross for Justice; and Erie Benedictines cheer cancelled plastic.

At Presentation Arts Center in St. Louis, Missouri, Daughters of Charity offer a variety of creative programs for locals who otherwise wouldn't have access to the arts.

The 12th Catholic Sisters Week is sharing hundreds of stories of sisters throughout history to demonstrate the richness of religious life.

More than 100 faith leaders — including Catholic sisters — from around the world signed a letter calling for finance ministers of the world's largest economies to reform debt that burdens low-income countries.

Spared the death penalty, the man who murdered an Ursuline sister 30 years ago writes to ask them for forgiveness. They give it, and transform their healing into activism.

Amid declining numbers of U.S. sisters, many are asking what will happen to their associates once the sisters cannot lead them anymore or if the congregation no longer exists.

In a statement after the first tumultuous week of the second Trump presidency, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said sisters must be fearless in embodying the Gospel amid a "rapid dismantling of values."

Also, Catholic sisters and sister-led groups react to President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and pardon of Jan. 6 rioters.

Sr. Maribeth Larkin, whose Sisters of Social Service evacuated to stay with the Sisters of Notre Dame, advised other congregations to talk to each other, and "have an up-to-date plan, not one you dust off from 20 years ago."

After nearly 20 years of sharing religious life through enterprises such as podcasts, A Nun's Life merges with Global Sisters Report.