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After signing her handwritten monastic vows, she removes the ring of her former community, leaves it with the document at the altar and after singing "Receive me, o Lord as you have promised that I may live, disappoint me not in my hope" three times, she receives the Benedictine ring, as a sign of her total incorporation into the Benedictine community of Mount St. Scholastica. (Courtesy of Helga Leija)

Professing monastic vows with dragons at the gate

By Helga Leija
Signs by Ukrainian Americans support Ukrainian independence during a celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day, Aug. 24, in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

After a week of heartbreak about Ukraine, truth still wins out

By Chris Herlinger
The priest stands wearing white habit staring out of window.

As third anniversary of war looms, Ukrainian Catholics cling to hope

By Chris Herlinger, Religion News Service
Srs. Rocio Garcia of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe (Father Plancarte) Mexico, Lismy Parayil of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel of India, Karolina Luczak of the Sisters of the Holy Nazareth from Poland, and Helga Leija of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, in the United States wait for the pope's private audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall Jan. 25, 2025. (Helga Leija)

Global Jubilee Conference: Alive with the spirit of Pentecost

By Helga Leija
Workers at a camp in Terrain Toto, Haiti, construct transitional shelters provided by Catholic Relief Services for those left homeless in the 2010 earthquake. Catholic Relief Services was among the humanitarian entities deeply affected by USAID cuts. (OSV News/Bob Roller)
NCR Voices

Slander aside, foreign aid wins goodwill for US — and saves lives

By Chris Herlinger
"The Presentation in the Temple" (ca. 1430) by Alvaro Pirez (Artvee)

A light of revelation: The power of witness of consecrated women

By Helga Leija
People hold candles at Mass with Pope Francis on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day for Consecrated Life in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 2, 2024. GSR is celebrating the 2025 World Day of Consecrated Life with a special event on Thursday, Jan. 30. (CNS/Lola Gomez)

GSR and Liturgical Press offer special event Jan. 30 to mark World Day of Consecrated Life

By Gail DeGeorge
The House of the Virgin Mary, about miles (5 kilometers) from Ephesus, is said to be where Mary lived after Jesus' crucifixion and Pentecost when she was with the apostles. She traveled to Ephesus with the apostle St. John, whom Jesus instructed from the cross to care for his mother. (GSR photo/Gail DeGeorge)

At Mary's House in Ephesus, a bond between mothers comes to life

By Gail DeGeorge
Sr. Helga Leija with sisters from Argentina, Dominican Republic and Peru during the V Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Religious Life, held Nov. 22-24 in Cordoba, Argentina. (GSR photo/Helga Leija)

CLAR calls religious to be 'radically human' amid challenges

By Helga Leija
(GSR artwork/Olivia Bardo)

'Wisdom from the Global Sisterhood': Sentinels of Advent and Christmas

By Helga Leija
Sr. Hedwig Muse, a member of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu in Uganda and a civil lawyer who works for the Association of Sisters of Kenya, speaks against a proposed finance bill to the Kenyan government parliamentary committee in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Hedwig Muse)

Sister lawyers — canonical or civil — bring unique perspectives to role

By Joyce Meyer
Sr. Barbara Reid, president of Catholic Theological Union and a Dominican of Grand Rapids, Michigan, talks to participants during a biblical study tour of Greece and Turkey, "In the Footsteps of St.Paul." Here she is near the entrance to the archeological site of ancient Philippi, where she explains how St. Paul honors many women who were leaders in the Early Christian communities. (GSR photo/Gail DeGeorge)

In St. Paul's footsteps, a history of women in the church comes to life

By Gail DeGeorge
Illustrations of the six Catholic female mystics in history from The Mystics Would Like a Word, written by Shannon K. Evans, NCR culture and spirituality editor. The illustrations are clockwise, from upper left, St. Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, St. Hildegard of Bingen, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena. (Illustrations by Dani/andhersaints)

Book on mystics explores wisdom from sisters for modern times

By Shannon Evans
Peria seedlings (Unsplash/Mohd Hasrul Nizam Bin Sabani)
Science

Sisters take to WhatsApp to exchange advice in sustainable agriculture

By Joyce Meyer
Composite of 20 headshots

Share your voice in upcoming The Life panel for 2024-25

By GSR Staff
Sisters pray Aug. 15 at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Orlando, Florida. (GSR photo/Dan Stockman)

At the threshold of a shared future, LCWR holds a deeply moving conference

By Joyce Meyer
"Song of Miriam the Prophetess" by Luca Giordano

Miriam: A prophetess overshadowed by men

By Helga Leija
Women hold candles at a church Oct. 26, 2019, in My Khanh, Vietnam. The service was for 39 people found dead in the back of a truck at the Port of Tilbury Oct. 23, in Essex, England. (CNS/Reuters/Kham)

Sisters across the globe work to eradicate human trafficking

By Soli Salgado
White mailbox in a green grassy field (Unsplash/Mikaela Wiedenhoff)

Messages and letters are a testament to sisters' stories

By Helga Leija
The board of directors for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation gathered in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss the board's equity fund. Sr. Joyce Meyer is third from right. (Courtesy of Shaheen Kassim-Lakha)

Ensuring equity for our neighbors on the margins of society

By Joyce Meyer