Monday Starter

Monday Starter is a biweekly feature from Global Sisters Report staff writers that rounds up news from or about women religious.

Monday Starter is a biweekly feature from Global Sisters Report staff writers that rounds up news from or about women religious.

A person in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, lights a candle at a memorial site July 5 near the parade route the day after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade. Seven people were killed and dozens injured. (CNS/Reuters/Cheney Orr)

Monday Starter: Mercy Sisters denounce Ohio killing, Illinois mass shooting

By Chris Herlinger
Jul 11, 2022
Mercy sisters take part in the Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18 in Washington, D.C., organized by the Poor People's Campaign.

Monday Starter: Mercy Sisters join march demanding higher quality of life in America

By Dan Stockman
Jun 27, 2022
A celebration and farewell for Sr. Ann Scholz was held June 15 by the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation promotors of women religious congregations. (GSR Screenshot/Gail DeGeorge)

Monday Starter: Change underway at LCWR with election and director's departure

By Dan Stockman
Jun 20, 2022
The music group of St. Joseph of Saint-Marc convent in Mukachevo, Ukraine, is made up of, from left, Sister Laura (keyboard), Sister Erika (drums), Sister Christina (guitar), Sister Marina (vocals) and Sister Natalka (violin).

Monday Starter: Convent's music therapy comforts Ukraine's war victims

By Dan Stockman, Thomas Scaria
Jun 13, 2022
Body bags are placed on the National Mall in Washington near the U.S. Capitol on March 24. (CNS/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Monday Starter: More religious communities speak out against gun violence

By Dan Stockman
Jun 06, 2022
Crosses attached to a destroyed bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, on May 16 (CNS/Reuters/Jorge Silva)

Monday Starter: Franciscan sister visits Kyiv with religious delegation

By Soli Salgado
May 30, 2022
A boy writes a message on a sidewalk May 18 in Buffalo, New York, where a mass shooting took place May 14 at a Tops supermarket. (CNS/Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Monday Starter: Sisters condemn violence, white supremacy following Buffalo shooting

By Soli Salgado
May 23, 2022
Sr. Mary Teresa Barron, right, superior general of the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, speaks May 3 at the UISG assembly in Rome with Loreto Sr. Patricia Murray, left, UISG executive secretary, and Claretian Sr. Jolanta Kafka. (CNS)

Monday Starter: UISG selects new president and vice president

By Soli Salgado, Chris Herlinger
May 16, 2022

Monday Starter: Sr. Pat Murray to receive LCWR's 2022 leadership award

By Soli Salgado
May 09, 2022
Delegates at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York before the April 25 opening of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (U.N. photo)

Monday Starter: Thanks to Dominican hosts, Indigenous representatives join UN meeting

By Chris Herlinger
May 02, 2022
Sr. Thea Bowman through the years (Courtesy of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)

Monday Starter: Georgetown event will focus on the legacy of Sr. Thea Bowman

By Chris Herlinger
Apr 25, 2022
A woman collects grain Jan. 22 at a camp for internally displaced people in Adadle in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. (CNS/Reuters/Courtesy of the World Food Program/Claire Nevill)

Monday Starter: War in Ukraine contributes to growing global hunger

By Chris Herlinger
Apr 18, 2022
Serhii Lahovskyi, 26, mourns next to the grave of his friend Ihor Lytvynenko after Lytvynenko was found beside a building's basement in Bucha, Uraine, April 6. Residents say Russian soldiers killed Lytvynenko. (CNS/Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Monday Starter: Killings of Ukrainian civilians don't surprise St. Basil sisters there

By Chris Herlinger
Apr 11, 2022
Prairie lands are among the 233 acres recently protected from commercial development with a conservation easement by the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. (Courtesy of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes)

Monday Starter: St. Agnes sisters to conserve Wisconsin land in perpetuity

By Dan Stockman
Apr 04, 2022
Environmental activists march to the U.S. Capitol during an Oct. 15, 2021, climate change protest in Washington. (CNS/Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

Monday Starter: Loretto Community celebrates 30 years of environmental ministry

By Chris Herlinger, Dan Stockman
Mar 28, 2022
A total of 46 Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate participated in the March 12 synodal church meeting at Tejgaon Church Community Center in Dhaka organized by Tejgaon parish. (Sumon Corraya)

Monday Starter: Bangladesh sisters take part in synod process

By Dan Stockman, Sumon Corraya
Mar 21, 2022
People gather to pray for peace in Ukraine March 2 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (CNS/Reuters/Remo Casilli)

Monday Starter: Join virtual Lenten prayers for peace in Ukraine

By Dan Stockman
Mar 14, 2022
A nun carries humanitarian goods to be loaded onto trucks as first aid transport to Ukraine at the Basilica of Santa Sofia, a religious and cultural center for Ukrainian expatriates in Rome, on March 3. (CNS/Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

Monday Starter: How to help sisters and others in Ukraine

By Dan Stockman
Mar 07, 2022
A view shows the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service site damaged by shelling near Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24. (CNS/Reuters/Courtesy of the press service of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service)

Monday Starter: Sisters respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, pray for peace

By Soli Salgado
Feb 28, 2022
Terra e Missione launched its website Feb. 20. (Courtesy of Terra e Missione)

Monday Starter: New association will foster ecological and missionary synodality

By Soli Salgado
Feb 21, 2022