Dan Stockman

Monday Starter - Once again, American men have turned guns on people in mass shootings. And once again, women religious are speaking out, decrying the violence and grieving the dead.

GSR talks to Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Anne Munley, associate director for LCWR's Emerging Future Initiative, about updates on the process, including five Collaborative Leadership Hubs held across the U.S. in 2022.

As congregations merged into one as the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, it became obvious that the structure of the sisters' 55 schools in six countries also needed to change. And so Mercy Education formed in 2017.

Catholic Care for Children International, a global initiative to reform the way women and men religious care for orphaned or abandoned children, will hold its first in-person meeting of international partners.

Sr. Annie Credidio, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who founded Damien House in Ecuador for those living with leprosy, will receive $100,000 as a finalist for the Opus Prize for humanitarian work.

With fears of election-related violence in the United States increasing the leaders of six congregations of women religious in Michigan are coming together to condemn the divisiveness.

Global Sisters Report asked congregations in the United States, Canada and Ireland about their retreat centers and how they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its lockdowns and various restrictions.

During lockdown, sister-run retreat centers sat empty. Some centers closed permanently due to the pandemic, but experts believe it was no more than a handful. Center directors spoke about how they have made it so far.

When individual sisters or a congregation itself need healing, they often turn to the married team of Beth Lipsmeyer and Ted Dunn, licensed clinical psychologists who together form Comprehensive Consulting Services.

Maryknoll Sr. Abby Avelino will be the third international coordinator if Talitha Kum, the sister-led international network that advocates against human trafficking. 

A new hourlong documentary, "Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman's Journey to Sainthood," on the Black Franciscan and candidate for sainthood, will begin airing on ABC stations across the U.S. on Oct. 2.

The International Union of Superiors General has released the third and final installment in its campaign to celebrate Catholic sisters promoting justice, peace and the integrity of creation.

More than 100 nuns from 25 congregations helped at an annual three-day pilgrimage in Mariamabad, Punjab province, Pakistan. The 73rd pilgrimage linked to the feast of the Nativity of Mary was held Sept. 9-11.

Three sister-led organizations are the cohort for Sisters INSPIRE, a two-year project of the Catholic Volunteer Network that hopes to move communities from tolerance to inclusion and, ultimately, to liberation.

The Ursuline Sisters' motherhouse in Paola, Kansas, has returned to life after more than a decade of being shuttered. It is now home to Arista Recovery, a rehabilitation facility.

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.

Even in a time of diminishment, there's the opportunity for sisters to influence through advocacy. There's ministry of prayer, ministry of presence, and we have the opportunity to keep listening.

More than 150 people attended the annual gathering of the National Black Sisters' Conference, a joint meeting with three other Black Catholic groups, which ran July 23-28 at the University of Notre Dame.

"Aren't we supposed to be the good people? ... But our intent was so different than our impact." U.S. women religious look at a legacy of schools that were part of a federal policy attempting to destroy Native culture.

Monday Starter: More than 50 Sisters of Mercy, associates and co-workers joined the Poor People's Campaign June 18 march in Washington, D.C. The group's goals align with theirs, the sisters said in a statement.