Dan Stockman

Through a new initiative, congregations, federations and conferences around the world will work to ensure Catholic sisters with dementia and cognitive impairment will live their best lives both physically and spiritually until the end of their days.

A chapel at the oldest Jesuit university in the United States is now named for Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman instead of a priest who once fought in the Confederate army.

A year after stepping down as executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, Sr. Simone Campbell is working on a project that tries to create dialogue between Democrats and Republicans.

Congregations of women religious struggling to find the resources to run a novitiate program now have an alternative: The InterCongregational Collaborative Novitiate, a yearlong novitiate program open to all.

As Network celebrates 50 years, it plans to continue work on dismantling structural racism, forming a truly inclusive and multiracial democracy, and building new political structures that put human dignity over profits.

Concerns shared during a global UISG webinar include the fear of elderly sisters going into a separate home and the lack of retirement culture — facilities for elderly religious are seen as a place to go to die.

Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, have signed a conservation easement to protect land that is home to their motherhouse as well as forest, prairie, wetlands, farm fields, a cemetery, labyrinth and nature trails.

Several women religious communities are collaborating to address the unique dynamics of poverty in New Orleans, beyond the tourist attractions of the French Quarter.

The celebration of the Loretto Earth Network came as U.N. Commission on the Status of Women focused on empowering women and girls in the context of climate change and environmental and disaster risk reduction policies.

Sacred Heart Sr. Maria Cimperman is a true believer in the Synod of Bishops on synodality: "The whole synodal process is really communal discernment. How do we walk with each other and hear each other?"

Nearly 50 Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, participated in a parish synodal event. "As nuns, we want to make people more active in the church," Sr. Chandana Rozario said.

It's hard to imagine how powerless the people of Ukraine must feel as their lives are torn apart. It's also hard to feel like you can help. But prayer does help, as Catholic sisters will always tell you.

Participants in an International Union of Superiors General webinar March 9 heard from presenters that the percentage of sisters who are elderly is expected to increase globally over the next decades.

More than 1,000 Catholic long-term care facilities in the United States, most of which were founded by sisters or are sponsored ministries, and secular nursing homes alike are working through the difficulties that persist. Residents suffer the consequences. 

Monday Starter: Catholic sisters across the world are praying, working and raising money to help refugees and families in crisis as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. You can pray and pitch in, too.

Though communications with those in a war zone are difficult, Global Sisters Report has received updates from some women religious ministering in Ukraine. The sisters endure amid a mass exodus of people.

Catholic Sisters Week begins March 8, International Women's Day. Many of this year's events are about getting participants involved in the work sisters do.

Sisters of Charity Federation leaders said research shows that the two original congregations of Charity sisters in the United States owned slaves before slavery was outlawed in 1865.

"Every image I take or send out, every photograph I glue on a card is God's people. Every photograph is an act of prayer," the Nun with a Nikon says.

"Synodality is rooted in the tradition of the church. Francis is rescuing this value of our own tradition," Rafael Luciani told a webinar hosted by the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life.