by Lauren Magee
Notes from the Field - Our producers are a powerhouse group of women whose internal strength is seen in the way they carry others and continue to be resilient when encountering trauma.
by Judith Best
Contributor
The School Sisters of Notre Dame, when our foundress was still around in the mid 1800s, had a problem with the archbishop of Munich: They wanted to lead the congregation themselves, without being overseen by a male director. What she and the sisters did can be applied to women religious today.
by GSR Staff
"Let us become the first generation that decides to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods, and wasted potentials."
by Jose Kavi
Contributing editor
Three months after India's theologians and Catholic religious pressed a congress of bishops to act aggressively against a wave of sex abuse cases involving priests, no official response has come.
In June, Domincan Sr. Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth received a Catholic Health Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her 35 years of service in Jackson, Mississippi. Coming to the state in 1963, she spent 17 years as president of St. Dominic Health Services, retiring in 2011 and becoming the associate executive director of the St. Dominic Health Services Foundation.
by Judy Principe
Contributor
A simple act by a Sister of St. Joseph spoke volumes about how to practice the love of God in everyone and anyone without analysis, hesitation or debate regarding the recipient's deservedness to receive that love.
by GSR Staff
"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for he is going to say, 'I came as a guest, and you received me.' "
by Christina Neumann
Contributor
On the feast of Corpus Christi we remember in a special way the gift of the Eucharist, in which Christ holds nothing back from us. I have taken refuge in Jesus many times in Holy Communion or sitting before the tabernacle.
Christina Neumann serves at St. Anne's Guest Home, an assisted living-type facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she helps in a variety of roles, including receptionist, sacristan, activities and as an occasional personal care aide. She also manages the web page for the facility, writes their weekly blog and edits their resident newsletter.
For Dominican Srs. Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte and others like them, the U.N. agreement — which nuclear states like the U.S. have said they "do not intend to sign" — is a milestone in activists' long, vigilant but often lonely efforts.
