November 19, 2015
Prof. Sr. Patricia Lanigan teaches in Kenya at the Institute of Social Ministry at Tangaza College, using an academic approach to community-driven development
November 19, 2015
More than 500 women religious from across the United States and Canada gathered last weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, for the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious' symposium on religious life, an event inspired by the Year of Consecrated Life and Pope Francis' 2014 call for men and women religious to "wake up the world."
November 18, 2015
Book Review - In Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness, Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio offers up both Pope Francis and the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious as models of catholicity in our times.
by Tracy Kemme
Contributor
November 18, 2015
Commentary - How do I write anything this week that hasn’t already been written? You already know what is on my mind and heart. Paris. Beirut. Baghdad. Syria. Terrorism. Refugees. Reflections, opinions, tirades, videos, and prayers have been pulsing through the Internet.
by GSR Staff
November 18, 2015
"People know about the scientific facts of environmentalism. But faith is their belief, it is the ethical part of environmentalism. What does your faith say about the environment? What does your Bible or Quran say? If you link it to that, people take it into their hearts and it’s more effective. It’s our responsibility."
This story appears in the Notes from the Field feature series. View the full series.
by Lydia Noyes
November 18, 2015
Notes from the Field - I split my workweek between Big Laurel and the high school at the bottom of the mountain. As an aide, I feel pressure to step up and raise the classroom standard, but my lack of teaching experience is a big stumbling block.
November 18, 2015
From A Nun's Life podcasts - We talk with special guest Loretto Sr. Maureen Fiedler, host of the radio program Interfaith Voices and frequent blogger for National Catholic Reporter.
by GSR Staff
November 17, 2015
"How do we disperse the seeds of the Gospel?"
Pierrette Boissé is a Sister of the Congregation de Notre-Dame from Montreal. After serving as a teacher and coordinator of her congregation's Social Justice Network, she now focuses her ministry on issues related to human trafficking.
November 17, 2015
GSR Today - This past weekend, I was in St. Louis for a symposium on religious life hosted by the Council of Major Superior of Women Religious (all the details coming in a story later this week), and it was one of the strangest journalism experiences of my life. Not the symposium itself, but the timing.