Sabbaticals provide a necessary respite and boost for exhausted sisters, but many sisters are reluctant to take time off, even if they do acknowledge they are worn down. A spiritual renewal center in Uganda is trying to help sisters and superiors understand that working until burnout can do more harm than good.
by GSR Staff
" . . . the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth . . . ."
Marcelline Manga is a journalist and Cameroonian sister of Oeuvre de Saint Paul, (the Work of Saint Paul) of Fribourg, Switzerland. She has worked for 10 years for the communication service in the Archdiocese of Yaounde, Cameroon, and has written for the diocesan newspaper, Horizon. She also broadcasts documentaries for Cameroon national television station CRTV and Sunday Catholic shows on CRTV-Radio.
GSR Today - What does the Super Bowl have to do with women religious? Guaranteed there will be more than a few sisters among fans gathered around TVs on Sunday. But one in particular will be enjoying the game all the way to the bank.
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
In 2010, I moved to Philadelphia to serve as a full-time volunteer, leaving a full-time job behind to serve as a parish outreach minister in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The tree in front of our volunteer house was a point of reference. It was a marker, rising above the row homes and trash-strewn streets of the neighborhood. As it came into focus, it guided others to us, while also serving as a sign of what had been and a signal of what could be.
Review - Women's ministerial vocations have differed throughout the centuries, but they have existed in every era and in every locale. Benedictine Sr. Laura Swan, former prioress of St. Placid Priory in the state of Washington, adds to her prodigious body of work with this comprehensive investigation into the lives of thousands of celibate women who lived outside the cloister as Beguines.
by GSR Staff
"Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it."
LCWR president-elect Sr. Marcia Allen talks to Global Sisters Report about growing up in western Kansas, living through the overnight changes wrought by Vatican II for women religious, and her thoughts on the evolution of leadership. With degrees in French, history and administration, Allen also earned a doctorate in applied spiritual ministry. “What I really wanted to do was get an organized perspective of the development of spirituality,” she said, “because, as a matter of fact, the people of the world are yearning for spiritual depth rather than religious traditions.”
Global Sisters Report traveled to Concordia, Kansas, last month to visit with Sr. Marcia Allen, president of the Sisters of St. Joseph based there. Allen is president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; she officially will be installed at the LCWR assembly in August.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - Language doesn't possess a word horrible enough to express it. Dastardly? No. Horrendous? No. Unadulterated evil? No. None of these is enough as we describe the awful truth and stark reality. On Jan. 27, 2015, the world marked the 70th anniversary of the Russian liberation of Auschwitz.
