by Retta Blaney
Contributor
Sr. Carol Perry, a Sister of St. Ursula, found a revelation in 1957 when she was allowed to study Scripture directly: for one thing, the Bible deals with flesh and blood human beings. For 34 years she has been bringing great storytelling skills of her own and her deeply informed passion for Scripture to groups at Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, where her Sunday class – with Protestants and Catholics – is standing-room-only.
Retta Blaney is the author of Working on the Inside: The Spiritual Life through the Eyes of Actors, which features interviews with Kristin Chenoweth, Dudu Fisher, Edward Herrmann, Liam Neeson, Phylicia Rashad, Vanessa Williams and others. Her freelance work has also appeared in The Washington Post, Newsday, Jewish Week, American Theatre, Back Stage and other publications.
by GSR Staff
"Continue this labor and make sweet floods to run and noble and abundant fruits to spring."
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
NCR Today - Dust From Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa is one of my favorite books about Africa. Journalist Joan Baxter, who spent 25 years in West Africa, challenges us to put aside a common image of Africa as the “Dark Continent” and begin seeing it as a continent of new light and creativity.
by Christine Schenk
Lately, Catholic news has been confusing and upsetting, with required loyalty oaths and the condemnation of nuns. But there is still some good news.
Diane Bergant is a professor of Old Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She shares her experience becoming a member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, what religious life means to her and how things have changed over the years.
by Nancy Wiechec
Contributor
When the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate was established in Mexico in 1886, the founder named the sisters so because he felt Mary would watch closely over her youngest of daughters. Early on the congregation was called to aid a community devastated by flooding in central Mexico. The first Minim sisters ran medical centers, orphanages and schools.
by GSR Staff
"There are two problems for our species' survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
Catholic News Service
Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Srs. Margarita Martin, Angela Cordero and Marietta Jansen live in a trailer convent outside of Athens, Ga., among immigrants who work in agriculture and constructiony. With the help of university students, the sisters run a tutoring program for children and provide other services in a geographic area where almost three quarters of families live in poverty.
U.S. death penalty - Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project released the results of a 2013 survey of American Christians about the death penalty. While support of the death penalty is crawling back toward its 1960s national low, the majority of American adults say they support the execution convicted murderers.
