GSR Today - Every day, we're writing about those living in poverty, those suffering abuse and those otherwise marginalized from mainstream culture — all people groups that are easily stereotyped — and all in addition to covering Catholic sisters who have a whole history of being stereotyped themselves.
Every August, the Franciscan Sisters, Third Order Regular, of the Penance of the Sorrowful Mother in Toronto, Ohio, go through what they call "transitions." The sisters move to mission houses, novices make first vows, postulants become novices, and new postulants arrive at the monastery. For temporarily professed Sr. Mary Gemma Harris, 27, the transitions this year were particularly hard. Last year, after making her first vows, she was assigned to the kitchen in the motherhouse. This year, while her classmates went off to other assignments, Harris was named coordinator of the kitchen.
by Jeannine Gramick
Contributor
On the one hand, it's true that in showing mercy, I can feel good about myself because I'm doing something virtuous. I can give myself a pat on the back subconsciously. I'm being magnanimous and benevolent. On the other hand, it seems that, to receive mercy, I need to admit that I did something wrong or that I am not perfect.
by Nuri Vallbona
Responding to an increase of unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border, the federal government selected three temporary shelters in December to house immigrant children.
Onize Ohikere graduated in 2015 from Minnesota State University, Moorhead with degrees in mass communications and documentary journalism. In 2012, Onize moved from Nigeria to Minnesota to complete her undergraduate degree. During that time, she interned with Prairie Public in Fargo, North Dakota, and World magazine in North Carolina. When she is not writing stories that delve into the life experiences and survival of others, she enjoys broadening her theological knowledge with the works of writers like St. Francis de Sales and Fulton Sheen.
by GSR Staff
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
GSR Today - The 10 sisters who have been training in Rome are off to Sicily today to minister to the spiritual needs and help build bridges between refugees and the Sicilian population.
COP21 Paris - World leaders here Saturday evening, Dec. 12, reached the first-ever globally binding deal to address climate change, concluding two weeks of the "most complicated and difficult," and, at times sleepless, negotiations.
COP21 Paris - A 20-minute train ride and 10-minute walk from central Paris north to the French capital’s 19th arrondissement, a different conference of the parties has occurred each night during the second week of COP21, the United Nations climate change conference.
