by Renee Schultz
Contributor
March 11, 2019
I didn't know how to "declutter" a part of my mind and heart for God, so I just kept praying for help, beginning every morning by asking God to make me aware of the needs of those around me.
March 11, 2019
The commission's 63rd annual session at the United Nations comes at a critical moment in the history of women's rights and gender equality, say Catholic sisters who plan to participate in the March 11-22 events.
by Lissy Maruthanakuzhy
March 11, 2019
NAGPUR, INDIA - Maria Niwas, the orphanage run by the Salesian Sisters of Mary Immaculate in Nagpur, has helped children get a good start in life for more than a century. Over the years, when those children became adults with families of their own, they keep regular contact with the orphanage and give support to their "siblings" living there now.
March 8, 2019
Sr. Orla Treacy, an Irish Loreto sister who helps run a boarding school in South Sudan that she and her order started, whose work in the country, has continued for more than a decade, is one of 10 recipients of the 2019 U.S. Department of State's International Women of Courage Award.
Renee Schultz grew up in the Kansas City area and was a student of and friends with the Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kansas, for many years before they merged with the Kentucky congregation. She attended Johnson County Community College, and is now serving as campus minister and director of student service at Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, Kansas. She is currently completing her formation program to become an associate of the Mount St. Joseph (Kentucky) Ursulines.
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by Susan Rose Francois
NCR Contributor
March 8, 2019
Horizons - This Lent, it seems the invitation for me is to focus on beauty, to add to and look for and create and celebrate beauty amidst the messiness and challenges of life.
by Callista L. Gingrich
March 8, 2019
Commentary - The Irish nun, head of Loreto Schools in Rumbek, received the State Department international award for her courage, inner strength and fierce dedication to female empowerment.
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by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
March 8, 2019
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, the sisters suggest new ways to approach Lent as an opportunity to deepen our relationship with God.
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by Ruth Droege
Contributor
March 7, 2019
My book club's pick to read this winter was Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. The book made me recall how Pierre Tielhard de Chardin also described the "road" on which we make life's journey.
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March 7, 2019
The sixth annual celebration of Catholic women religious, which always begins March 8, International Women's Day, and runs through March 14, has a record number of events planned. National Catholic Sisters Week, which focuses on getting laypeople to engage with sisters, continues to grow in part because the program staff have made it easier than ever to participate.