GSR Today - GSR is two weeks old today, and with every news article or column filed, I'm encouraged by what sisters are doing to improve our world, often one person at a time. Bonus: Sr. Jan Cebula and I will be guests on A Nun's Life "In Good Faith" podcast today.
by Ilia Delio
Recently I asked some of my undergraduate students: how do you see the world? Is it getting better or more violent? Surprisingly, they all agreed the world is getting better because we are more globally connected to one another and more collaborative on common issues such as water justice and global warming. I thought to myself, “a vision of the world from the hilltop of Georgetown in Washington, D.C.”
by GSR Staff
'After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”'
Sr. Barbara Moore entered the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1955. Having spent most of her religious life in Kansas City, Mo., she ministered at St. Joseph Hospital, Avila University and Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center. She went with the 22-person Kansas City delegation in March 1965 to Selma, Ala., to march for Civil Rights.
Minors and sex work - A new report published in the May issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science takes a critical look at the methods traditionally used to report on minors working in prostitution in the United States. According to the report’s authors, a mistaken reliance on the testimonies of former sex workers has created a false narrative in which pimps enslave and exploit vulnerable minors.
The German cardinal who has been called the "pope's theologian" said fresh Vatican criticism of American nuns was typical of the "narrower" view that officials of the Roman Curia tend to take, and he said U.S. Catholics shouldn't be overly concerned.
GSR Today - The Feast of St. James the Apostle was Saturday, and a homily given at a local church named for him called to mind the need for us to become "part of the story." That resonated with me, and what I have found since coming to Kansas City nine months ago: sisters have no shortage of stories to tell.
From NCRonline.org - The discussion between U.S. women religious and Vatican officials that followed "blunt," confrontational opening remarks by the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was "frank and open," says a U.S. archbishop present at the April 30 meeting.
Sr. Helen Maher Garvey, BVM, is an organizational consultant for religious congregations. Presently she serves on the Board of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company. She was the director of the LCWR History Exhibit, Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America. Garvey held the position of Director of the Office of Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Lexington for 10 years. She served in the presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) from 1986 to 1989 and was a U.S.
Ilia Delio, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Washington, D.C., is the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of 16 books, including Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness (Orbis Books 2015), and the general editor of the series Catholicity in an Evolving Universe.
