Three Stats and a Map - Migration has been a big issue in 2015. Whether it’s the migration of Syrian refugees to places like Europe and Canada, effects of climate change presenting Pacific Islanders with threats of relocation, or talk of Donald Trump building a wall along the souther border of the US, the movement of people has been on most of our minds in some way or another this year.

Notes from the Field - I consider myself relatively informed about the humanitarian crises happening throughout the world thanks to my college education but the Catholic Committee of Appalachia meeting blew apart my confidence that I could even understand the environmental tragedies in my own backyard.

"Can my actions be directed by Love even when I am weary, doubting, disheartened and when the next steps require losing myself to extravagant and calculated, but sometimes foolish, sacrifices and vulnerable loving actions for life?”

Sr. Gwendolyn Hoeffel is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and spent most of the last 50 years living and working in Japan. From the 1960s to the 1980s, she taught at the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, eventually serving as principal of kindergarten to fourth grade. She spent the following two decades working with immigrants, refugees and the poor in Nagoya. Hoeffel currently lives in New York City, where she is adjusting to life back in the United States. Brett Davis met Hoeffel at her apartment in New York City's Hell's Kitchen to interview her for his oral history book project about Catholic women religious.

Disposable girls . . . suspicious massage parlours . . . shifty escort services . . . massive frauds . . . strip clubs . . . physical and psychological violence . . . women killed or missing . . . many young women unidentified, anonymous, damaged in body and soul. It is all so overwhelming, and because of that, very often people do not know what to do to help the cause of abused and exploited women.

"All of us, all over the world, are cells in the body of humanity."

GSR Today - In our fast-paced world, at times filled with sound bites of superficiality, it’s a blessing to be reminded of what is important, to be called to center our lives on the Gospel and to touch God in the depth and breadth of it all. To help us realize all is interconnected.

Filming took seven years, two trips to Italy, crashing a Pauline bus pilgrimage, getting kicked out of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls in Vatican City and a number of reported miracles. But on Oct. 25, the Daughters of St. Paul and Spirit Juice Studios finally premiered their 90-minute documentary, "Media Apostle," at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago.

GSR Today - Looking back over 2015, we have favorites. Did you miss one of these stories the first time around? Now would be the perfect chance to read it. Better yet, read all 10!

Sr. Margo Morris is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the president of Sprout Creek Farm in Dutchess County, New York. She has been involved in educational agriculture since 1982. She met with Brett Davis at Sprout Creek Farm to talk about her work at the farm for Davis' oral history book project about Catholic women religious.