Sandra Smithson, a School Sister of St. Francis, has spent over 60 years in education and health missions in Latin America and the U.S. In 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee, she founded Project Reflect, whose mission is "transforming communities through education and policy reform," and she continues working with poor and minority children, her "little peanuts," toward that end.
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by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
June 25, 2015
See for Yourself - At a national professional association meeting recently, I found myself sitting at a luncheon table next to a healthcare software developer from California.
June 25, 2015
Notre Dame Sr. Thecla Tran Thi Giong, who earned a doctoral degree in counseling and psychotherapy from the Philippines in 1993, has taught at universities and in inter-congregational theological formation programs for men and women religious for more than 20 years in Vietnam. Giong is among the first Catholic nuns who were allowed to study abroad in the late 1980s after the country was reunified under communist rule in 1975 when the war ended.
by GSR Staff
June 25, 2015
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
June 25, 2015
Since 2001, more than 2,000 women have not only found safety but learned skills at St. Monica's Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda, directed by Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe. In her words: "They are fighting back with needles and sewing machines and not with machine guns."
This story appears in the Laudato Si' encyclical feature series. View the full series.
by GSR Staff
June 25, 2015
"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience."
June 25, 2015
An oral history project at St. Catherine University is an unique first-person archive that documents, in an academically rigorous way, the intersection of housing insecurity and higher education, an experience far more common than it may seem. It was developed by Louise Edwards-Simpson, a history professor at the university, with the help of Sr. Amata Miller, a member of Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Kelly Litt is a 2014-2015 Dominican Volunteer serving with the Dominican Leadership Conference NGO to the United Nations in New York City. She graduated summa cum laude from Ohio Dominican University with a degree in history and minor in peace and justice. At the United Nations she works on a variety of global issues including peace and security, women and girls’ issues, migration and human trafficking.
June 24, 2015
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Why would God give me two different vocations at the same time if they're not compatible?
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by Mary Clare Mazzocchi
Contributor
June 24, 2015
Notes from the Field - After a short pause following the graduation of our seniors, San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy is populated with students again this week as we begin our summer school classes. I am glad to see one student in particular because it means she is planning on returning next year.