Gail DeGeorge

On Aug. 13, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will hand out three Lifetime Achievement Awards, the first time the organization has given the award. The inaugural recipients are an economist, an advocate and a world traveler.

The dispute over St. Mary's Mission Hospitals pits a former Maryknoll priest against the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi. Each side claims ownership of the hospitals, with the standoff resulting in an exodus of staff and significantly diminished service to patients.

The event brought together young adult Catholic women ages 21-30 for five days of inspirational and motivational talks, leadership training, prayer workshops and mentoring sessions.

Sr. Sophie de Jésus speaks with GSR about the challenges throughout the formation of Association Compassion Asian Youth, an organization she founded years ago in the Philippines to help teens and young adults better themselves.

Meet the alumni of a pair of programs started in the Philippines that help young people in trouble with the law or who are recovering from trauma and need advocacy and guidance — and the Missionaries of Mary sisters whose ACAY program provides them foundations for life.

GSR Today - We don't know yet the full extent of how the pandemic will change religious life, but I have observed this past year how sisters have demonstrated courage, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Tapping creativity and ingenuity is a hallmark of the Notre Dame Mission Volunteers-AmeriCorps members — more than 400 — who found their terms of service at some 220 schools and community center sites disrupted by the pandemic.

GSR Today - Catholic women religious have been working to improve the lives of others long before the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Now you can see how sisters' ministries contribute to the overall U.N. plan.

Sr. Nancy Sylvester said that the spiritual balm offered through a regular practice of contemplation is more important than ever, during GSR's first Witness & Grace: Conversations with Sisters program.

GSR Today - Leading up this year's virtual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, I'd been thinking a lot about past LCWR assemblies and previous presentations that now seem prescient.

GSR Today - The retreat and workshop offered by the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, "Enter the Chaos: Engage the Differences to Make a Difference," had a lot of effect on me, including finding ways to learn to live and act out of our deepest selves.

GSR invited readers to share how congregations reach out to younger women, and about new members under age 40. They describe new ways of instruction that encourage exploration of inner strengths and struggles.

Global Sisters Report invited readers to share how congregations reach out to younger women, and about new members under age 40. One avenue is to reach out to women pursuing vocations internationally.

Global Sisters Report invited readers to share how congregations reach out to younger women, and about new members under age 40. Readers informed GSR that the key is developing personal relationships.

Adrian Dominican Sr. Corinne Florek spoke to GSR about leading the Religious Communities Impact Fund. The fund's members, all women religious communities, pool their investment money, which enables larger loans, less paperwork and more effective financing.

At a recent conference, Sr. Pat Daly said that new proposed SEC rules could hamper the ability of smaller shareholders to push for change, while other experts promoted the next tier of impact investing that moves beyond divestment and focuses on social and environmental change.

Religious sisters, grantees and partners convened in the U.S. and in Zambia for the Hilton Foundation's discussion of ways to achieve the goals of its Catholic Sisters Strategic Initiative Strategy.

Today, we're pleased to introduce GSR in the Classroom, a supplementary curriculum that adapts articles and columns for use in Catholic middle and high schools and faith formation programs. 

Challenging women religious and those who speak on their behalf to be prophetic voices, Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister provided a clear call to counter forces that perpetuate the problems of poverty, injustice and inequality in the world and the church in her keynote address at the Communicators for Women Religious (CWR) conference.

GSR Today: Welcome to Global Sisters Report's new website! This is our first major redesign since our start in April 2014, and the new look should seem familiar to readers of National Catholic Reporter.