by GSR Staff
Sr. Carol Breslin is a Medical Missionary of Mary, whose members pioneered medical services to girls and women affected by fistula. For many years, working with a number of partners, MMMs have brought relief to thousands of women affected by fistulae in East and West Africa. Members of the order work in 14 countries worldwide and have U.S. houses in Boston, New York and Chicago.
Marcelline Koch is a Dominican Sister of Springfield, Illinois, and directs the Office of Justice for the Dominican Sisters of Springfield and is the North American co-promoter for justice for the Dominican family in North America.
Durstyne (Dusty) Farnan is an Adrian Dominican sister from Michigan. After teaching elementary and junior high, she lived in Ghana, West Africa and Kenya with indigenous religious sisters in their initial formation programs. Later, she ministered in the inner city of Chicago and in psychiatric units as a clinical social worker; she has served her congregation as the director of justice and later vocation director. She currently serves as the U.N. representative for the Dominican Leadership Conference.
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Arlene Flaherty is a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, New York, who currently serves on the community's Iraq Coordinating Committee and is Director of the Office of Justice and Peace and Integrity of creation for the Atlantic Midwest Province of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. In 1999 she documented the damaging impact of the policy of sanctions and embargo on Iraqi children and presented those findings to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. She has traveled in Syria and Lebanon, documenting the reality of Iraqi refugees who have been displaced by war.
by GSR Staff
"When you leave your own home and you go someplace else and walk in someone else’s shoes, that helps you have a greater view of life and makes you stretch as a person."
by Jan Cebula
GSR Today - The media are busy summarizing the year: world events, best movies, best books, celebrity lives, who has died. Markers of time. Every year’s ending affords an opportunity for a life review, a gratitude review. Where has life taken us? What have been the blessings of the year?
by Ilia Delio
We are coming to the end of the year when holiday celebrations overshadow the ongoing realities of war, poverty and violence. As we look toward a New Year, I would like to declare 2015 the Year of Love. I do not mean love as sentiment or emotion but love as the highest good, the deep relationality of being itself.
by GSR Staff
“These are our sisters in whom we are well-pleased. May their efforts raise us all up to serve a new world with new and holy hearts.”
GSR Today - There is both good news and bad news, but – as is so often the case in South Sudan – the bad news seems to overwhelm the good.
by Martha A. Kirk
Contributor
As recent news has shown Pope Francis with Muslim and with Greek Orthodox leaders in Istanbul, I have been thinking of my experiences there. He has heard the Muslim call to prayer, as I have there. A few times between leading study tours with our university students in Turkey and doing some research on peacebuilding through education in Iraq, I have been blessed with the opportunity to make my annual retreat near Istanbul on the island of Beyukada. I had no one to talk to on the island, and I began to feel like the man who was to become Pope John XXIII was talking to me as I walked the streets that he would have walked.
