Regina Siegfried is a member of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an international community with U.S. regional offices in St. Louis. She teaches inter-community women novices at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis and coordinates RCIA at her urban parish, St. Vincent de Paul, where she is also one of the "sewing ladies" who mend backpacks and clothing of low-income and homeless guests who come to the parish for meals.
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by Joshua J. McElwee
December 4, 2014
The Vatican will be releasing the results of one of its controversial and contentious investigations of U.S. women religious at a press briefing in December, a priest who assists the Vatican's press office has said. Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica said the Vatican will release a report on the investigation, known as an apostolic visitation, Dec. 16.
by GSR Staff
December 4, 2014
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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by Christine Schenk
December 4, 2014
I love Advent. It's such a hopeful and consoling season for those who long to see God's values fully realized "on Earth as in heaven," as Jesus prayed. This is the season of the prophet Isaiah, whose proclamations permeate our liturgies and whose writings inspired both Jesus and St. Paul. We renew our belief in a God who brings "glad tidings to the poor, liberty to captives and makes justice and praise spring up before all the nations" (Isaiah 61).
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by Bernadette Flanagan
Contributor
December 4, 2014
As well stirring body, mind and spirit, Advent invites the soul to a new awakening. It is a mystical moment in the annual cycle of liturgical time. An invitation is issued to wait again with hopeful anticipation for the ever new action of God in our world.
December 4, 2014
Sisters utilize agriculture to generate income to sustain their ministry projects - At a hospital in Luweero, Uganda, two hours outside the capital of Kampala, the children are sometimes discharged from the hospital with antibiotics and a female goat. Both the goat and the medicine come from an initiative created by Catholic sisters who noticed that many of the HIV-positive orphans they treated at the Bishop Caesar Asili Hospital were stunted and malnourished.
Sr. Teresa Maya is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. Education has been her main ministry. She is currently serving on the leadership team of her congregation.
December 3, 2014
Before Brown v. Board of Education mandated the integration of America’s schools, Sinsinawa Dominican Sr. Patty Caraher taught at an all-black high school in the Mobile, Ala. As she puts it, she was naïve when she arrived, thinking she would sweep into the Deep South and teach her students how to survive in the “white world.”
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by GSR Staff
December 3, 2014
"O Wisdom guiding creation with love, fill us with wonder."
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by Jan Cebula
December 3, 2014
GSR Today - Advent is a favorite liturgical season of mine. The Scripture readings, especially from Isaiah, give me hope for the world in the making. Isaiah also reminds us that we are a people, not just individuals. Particularly here in the U.S., too often we lose sight of that communal dimension of the summons, who we are and what we are to be about as a people.