From A Nun's Life podcasts - How does your ministry help to change people's lives? In this Random Nun Clip, Sr. Cynthia Canning, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, talks about the transformative nature of ministry at Next Step Learning Center, for people seeking to build better lives.
by GSR Staff
"We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!"
Sharon Sullivan is a lifelong special educator and has been an Ursuline Sister of Mount St. Joseph for 35 years. She holds a doctorate in special education from Purdue University and taught for 25 years at Brescia University in Kentucky. Elected to congregational leadership in 2010, she served for six years, including three years on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' national board. After returning to teaching for six years, she was re-elected to congregational leadership. She also works on environmental and advocacy issues.
by Lauren Magee
Notes from the Field - I was minimizing the day to being a social media popularity contest, but my patients are teaching me how, with reflection, it's a true measure of time and progress.
by GSR Staff
"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint; that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come."
More than 100 younger sisters will gather in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend to compare notes, renew old ties and continue preparing for the future of religious life. The Collaborative Leadership Development Program works to develop the next generation of leaders among women religious.
by Kara Andrade
Global Sisters Report spoke with Charity Sr. Virginia Searing, who reflected on decades of work in Guatemala and at the Barbara Ford Peace Center, a nonprofit she co-founded that focuses on human and spiritual development. Searing works to aid the mental health of victims of the Guatemalan civil war.
by Cova Orejas
Contributor
In the West African countries of Gabon and Togo I have watched Sisters Rita, Julienne, Lucie, Clarisse, Gaby and Elisabeth get up each morning with one goal: to offer children an alternative life and to protect the most vulnerable.
by GSR Staff
"The divine life is essentially creative and actualizes itself in inexhaustible abundance."
by Sarah Mac Donald
Contention over the relocation of Ireland's new national maternity hospital to a site owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity in Dublin has raised questions about the clinical independence of the new facility and thrust the congregation into the public spotlight, rekindling attention to past controversies.
