Life skills combined with a vocational education help young women in Tanzania gain confidence and skills to be able to say "no" to early marriage based on financial need. Sisters and others are helping them to start their own businesses and make their own choices.
Religious and clergy in the Philippines say their experiences in the People Power Revolution 30 years ago have had a lasting impact on their faith and vocations. Sr. Porferia "Pingping" Ocariza, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul said that what she did Feb. 23, 1986, was worth it.
Simone Orendain has returned to work as a freelance multimedia journalist after eight years of caregiving. She reports from the Chicago/Midwest area and Asia, and she regularly covers the Catholic Church in the United States and Asia. She was a foreign correspondent based in Manila for six years before returning to the United States in 2016. In the United States, Simone was an education reporter and regularly covered business and religion.
by GSR Staff
"With exclusion and inequality on the rise, we must step up efforts to ensure that all people, without discrimination, are able to access opportunities to improve their lives and those of others."
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
In the week since the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, much has been written in remembrance of his life, his manner on the court, and his legacy. Even in the midst of such commentary and the almost immediate speculation about the process of nominating his successor, there arose a story that I had never heard: the infamous friendship between Scalia and fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - A Chicago echumenical tradition was exported to Racine, Wisconsin. What are social justice Stations of the Cross? Find out and start your own.
by GSR Staff
"Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets."
Benedictine Sr. Patricia Coughlin started her ministry in teaching, but she eventually became a psychotherapist specializing in Jungian therapy, spirituality and dream work. Now 76, she's retired from her 20 years as a pastoral psychotherapist but still works in spiritual direction and leads workshops.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - The last two celebrities from Hollywood's "Golden Age" turn 100 years old this year in 2016: Olivia de Havilland and Kirk Douglas. Both were born in 1916, both starred in many films, and both can point to a lifetime of service inside and to the motion picture industry.
by Christine Schenk
Lately I've been thinking about corruption. Maybe it's because we're in the season of Lent. Or perhaps it comes of seeing "The Big Short," a based-on-a-true-story movie about the 2008 meltdown of the housing market. Unscrupulous real estate companies sold millions of subprime mortgages to clueless buyers for homes they couldn't afford. Then greedy bankers bundled and sold the doomed loans to other entities that turned around and sold them yet again.
