Susan Rose Francois is the assistant congregation leader for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Reseeding Religious Life through Global Sisterhood. Read more of her work on her blog, At the Corner of Susan and St. Joseph.
May 1, 2014
I’m not a social worker, but what really got me was listening and meeting young women face to face and hearing that story. The brutality and injustice of human trafficking changed me; the women were the ones who changed me – it wasn’t the statistics and the analysis of the issue, it was the young women who have suffered incredible stress.
by Camille D'Arienzo
NCR Contributor
April 30, 2014
Mercy Sr. Mary McGrory, 69, is a nurse and clinical psychologist in New York City.
by Michael J. O'Loughlin
NCR executive editor
April 30, 2014
What's next for Sr. Simone Campbell? No stranger to the spotlight and a champion for fair treatment of the disadvantaged in the United States, she talks to Global Sisters Report about NETWORK.
Michael J. O'Loughlin is executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter.
Mike is also the author of Hidden Mercy: Catholics, AIDS, and Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear, which is based on the podcast series, "Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church," and author of The Tweetable Pope: A Spiritual Revolution in 140 Characters.
April 30, 2014
GSR TODAY - We’re a week into Global Sisters Report and we’re feeling pretty darn good. We’ve had visitors from more than 100 countries, which means that thousands of people around the world are discovering GlobalSistersReport.org. But how are you feeling about it? What do you like? What not so much?
by GSR Staff
April 30, 2014
"Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality; Nay, it is Deity. . ."
April 29, 2014
On the 39th anniversary of the closing of the Vietnam War, 20 percent of the countryside is still littered with thousands of unexploded bombs and munitions; the very poor have taken to diffusing them to sell for scrap, and many lives and limbs are lost each year by farmers and others who accidentally dig them up.
by Joan Brown
April 29, 2014
Women have persisted in making a difference and must continue to do so, if we are to face the greatest moral, ethical and spiritual challenge of climate change.
April 29, 2014
From a Nun's Life podcasts - Award-winning filmmaker Sr. Judy Zielinski, OSF, talks about storytelling about the lives of people as a way to bring the gospel to light.