by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
At the Women of Wisdom and Action colloquium, I met Sr. Rashmi Kanta Kiro, who belongs to the Daughters of St. Anne, Ranchi, the first congregation in India founded by tribal women. One of the first two female tribal doctoral students in India, Rashmi is carrying on their revolutionary charism.
by Cecilia A. Ranger
Mary Magdalene has gotten a lot of bad press, it seems to me. Every July 22, on her feast day, I dread listening to homilies at church; in Scripture study groups, I shudder at the accusations against her.
by Michele Morek
GSR Today - As a group, millipedes have survived mass extinctions that killed off dominant organisms like trilobites and dinosaurs. Will our smaller individual religious community groups similarly last for millennia?
Religious life in the United States and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious are changing. But St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn is uniquely prepared to lead an organization facing transformation. "I believe in this life, and I believe it is critical to the furthering of the Gospel," she says, but "the expression of the life is taking on a whole new form."
Rekha Kerketta, from the Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand, India, is a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. With an undergraduate degree in Hindustani classical music and graduate work in religious studies, she has taught Hindi and English in various schools and is a visiting professor in Feminist Theology at the Regional Theologate Jesuit Center, Arunodaya, Ranchi. Presently she is completing a doctorate degree at St. Albert's College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, about dissertation on the role of Christian Kurukh women in the church in Chotanagpur.
Leaders of women religious — including St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn and Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell — were among the hundreds of Catholics who gathered on Capitol Hill July 18 to express their disgust at the treatment of immigrant children.
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
Without losing sight of the current state of affairs in our country and our world, I’m intrigued by the lessons that the lunar landing offers to us today.
by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Contributor
Amid times of sadness as colleagues died and ministries were reconfigured or surrendered, women religious have not been overwhelmed. Instead they have brought skill, resilience and profound faith to the task of planning for their individual and corporate futures.
by GSR Staff
GSR will use the grants — $3 million from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and $225,000 from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation — to continue its work as a top news source about women religious, providing comprehensive news and analysis.
by Christine Schenk
"Mary Magdalene" is a perfect way to celebrate the "Apostle to the Apostles" on or around her July 22 feast day. It is both cinematically beautiful and well-grounded in contemporary scholarship about the religious and political context in which Jesus and Mary sought God and God's reign.
