Catholic News Service
When Katie Spanuello Rahman recalls the campus of her alma mater St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, she paints an idyllic picture.
"It was like living in a fairy-tale setting, with a marble staircase to ascend to my room" in Le Fer Residence Hall, said the 1993 alumna. "I always took great pride in the castlelike buildings and the surrounding natural beauty of the trees and the religious shrines on campus."
by Mandy Erickson
Contributor
Bowling with Nuns was one of many events around the country marking the fifth annual National Catholic Sisters Week, which ran from March 8 to 14. The week's purpose is to honor women religious, bring awareness of sisters in the United States to laypeople, and perhaps draw young women to join missions.
by GSR Staff
"Can we believe just a little longer? It will get darker still, but we will be drawn up and up."
by Catherine Mueller
We live in a world that seems to be unraveling before our eyes. But even in the midst of this collapse, there is a resurgence of grassroots efforts to make a difference.
by Geri Lanham
In a Haitian neighborhood of subsistence-farm families where people struggle to put food on the table each day, Lekòl Jezi-Mari, a primary school under the care of a Religious of Jesus and Mary, educates 576 students — some of them the first in their families to graduate from sixth grade.
by GSR Staff
"For some reason, God tends to deal with me in tidal waves rather than whispers. I attribute that to the fact that I'm hard to get through to!"
Sister of Loretto Catherine Mueller has served as a high school teacher, pastoral minister in several multicultural parishes in Colorado, and the president of the Sisters of Loretto / Loretto Community. She is the co-founder and co-director of EarthLinks, a nonprofit organization in Denver linking homeless and economically poor people with Earth and with one another. A member of the Loretto Emerging Forms Committee, she has also served on the board of Conrad N. Hilton Fund for Sisters, Leadership Conference of Women Religious and other boards of local nonprofits.
Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble keeps a small ceramic skull on her desk and tweets the thoughts it inspires daily. Despite the morbid connotations, most of Noble's tweets about death aren't really about death at all.
by Linda Romey
Take a plant cutting and let it grow in new soil: Keep the constitutive elements (lifelong consecrated celibacy and community) and replant them. Engage today's seekers in open and honest dialogue and then give them space to create community. Trust in God to lead us.
by GSR Staff
"People who pass by, who go ahead in life without taking account of the needs of others, without noticing the many spiritual and material needs, are people who pass without living; they are people who are not useful to others."
