Dan Stockman

The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.

For two centuries, women religious have been moving to the South to open schools and hospitals and serve those made poor and African Americans turned away from other institutions.

The Sisters of Charity of New York continue to "believe in the future of religious life" and will "continue to promote vocations, and redirect inquiries" to other Sisters of Charity congregations.

The U.S. visa backlog is now so severe that some religious workers in the country temporarily may have to leave before they can be granted permanent residency. 

Four religious communities with ministries in Kentucky have issued a joint statement following the April 10 mass shooting in Louisville calling for tougher enforcement of gun regulations and "sensible gun regulations."

"As members of the body of Christ, we cannot be whole without the full inclusion of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals," says a statement in honor of Trans Day of Visibility.

Sisters are helping compile a list of all boarding schools that Catholic entities ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. During this time, tens of thousands of Native American children endured abuse at boarding schools across the U.S.

Migrants and asylum-seekers endure deplorable conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholic sisters from three congregations have moved to the McAllen, Texas, area to minister permanently to those in great need.

After antisemitic threats to public officials, five Michigan congregations express "support and prayers for you and your families —and for all our Jewish sisters and brothers facing such hate-filled violence."

More than 80 Catholic Sisters Week events will be held across the U.S. and virtually March 8-14, to celebrate Catholic women religious — both their incredible legacy and the transformative work they do today.

Catholic sisters representing their congregations at the United Nations will participate in events March 6-17 during the U.N.'s annual forum promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

"We call on our Michigan State Legislators and on the U.S. Congress to take immediate urgent steps to enact comprehensive gun control laws," the Adrian Dominicans write.

With an initial grant from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Nix Conference & Meeting Management created the free TraffickCam app, which lets users take photos of any hotel room and anonymously submit them to the database.

"Violence against African Americans has been a fact of life in this country since the first slave patrols were created in the 1700s to apprehend runaway slaves," a National Black Sisters Conference statement says.

Sr. Francis Margaret Maag helped change an apartment complex in Dayton, Kentucky, from "a place of gloom" to "a community of hopefulness and joy and a community of love and care."

The Catholic Church's role in the federal government's attempt to destroy Native American culture through boarding schools must be acknowledged and dealt with, says an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The biggest issues in religious life in the U.S. today all revolve around the transformation it is undergoing, officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious told GSR in an hourlong interview.

Prominent sisters, some affiliated with U.S.-based organizations subject to Vatican investigations during Benedict XVI's papacy, mourn his death and praise his life of scholarship, spirituality and service.

Even $20,000 in debt forgiveness would come nowhere near erasing the outstanding debt preventing some discerners from entering convents or seminaries.

Sisters help return the holy meanings of the holidays by creating and selling gifts that can be purchased from convents across the United States.