Monday Starter

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

the back of a bishop, flanked by altar servers, in a procession

Monday Starter: UISG, USG joint report on synodality finds consensus for change

By Chris Herlinger
Maryknoll Sr. Abby Avelino (Courtesy of Talitha Kum)

Monday Starter: Maryknoll sister is Talitha Kum's new international coordinator

By Dan Stockman
The Union of International Superiors General has released the final video in a three-video series illustrating the work of Catholic sisters around the world. This video features scenes of sisters, such as the one here.

Monday Starter: New UISG video celebrates sisters creating 'a culture of care'

By Dan Stockman
Fr. Tariq George, rector of the shrine in Mariamabad, at the Church of St. Mary and St. Joseph (Courtesy of Anthony Gill)

Monday Starter: More than 100 nuns join pilgrimage for Marian feast day in Pakistan

By Kamran Chaudhry, Dan Stockman
Sr. Bernadette Bryan's chemistry class at Ursuline Academy in Paola, Kansas, in the 1920s. On Aug. 31, the Paola campus' motherhouse officially reopened as Arista Recovery. (Courtesy of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph)

Monday Starter: Ursuline motherhouse in Kansas gets new life after 14 years of dormancy

By Dan Stockman
A wide view of the general debate of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons that ended Aug. 26. (UN photo)

Monday Starter: Sisters disappointed at outcome of UN nuclear disarmament meetings

By Chris Herlinger, Dan Stockman
Holy Family Sr. Judith Therese Barial with students at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans. Barial and her work stand to benefit from a new grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to the Loyola Institute for Ministry. (Courtesy of Loyola University)

Monday Starter: Hilton Foundation awards grant to Loyola Institute for Ministry

By Soli Salgado

Monday Starter: African sisters honored for contributing to continent's development

By Chris Herlinger, Soli Salgado, Sumon Corraya
Maryknoll Sr. Joji Fenixm, left, is working to preserve native trees and plant life at a tree nursery at the Maryknoll Sisters Pastoral Care Center in Darien, Panama.

Monday Starter: Maryknoll begins discernment process in the face of climate change

By Chris Herlinger
A statue of Jesus stands over the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

Monday Starter: Sisters in India denied compensation for COVID-19 deaths

By Soli Salgado, Chris Herlinger

Monday Starter: Advocates hail UN resolution on universal right to clean environment

By Chris Herlinger
Bishop Nicolas Djomo, center front, failed to follow Vatican guidelines in dealing with allegations of a 2020 rape of a 14-year-old girl by a diocesan priest, The Washington Post has reported. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Monday Starter: Washington Post report says DRC bishop covered up rape allegations

By Chris Herlinger
A still image from "New Leaders," a new video from the International Union of Superiors General's Sisters Advocating Globally, an advocacy project to inform the public on the ministries of Catholic sisters (Courtesy of UISG)

Monday Starter: New UISG video highlights sisters' ministries globally

By Soli Salgado, Chris Herlinger
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
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
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
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
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
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
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