“People usually think nuns are rigid, even grumpy women. When they see us singing and dancing, when they get to know us better, they realize we’re not,” Sister Marizele said.
GSR celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 by bringing to readers updated versions of some of its first reported stories in 2014, as well as two powerful series, "Welcoming the Stranger" and "Evolving Religious Life."
GSR Today - Often, after a sister publishes a column, columns editor Sr. Helga Leija receives emails from readers who are deeply moved by the messages. Here, she shares a particularly beautiful one.
For nearly two years, the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes in Canada opened its doors to filmmaker Lessandro Sócrates, resulting in the documentary "De l'autre côté" ("On the Other Side").
"My superiors were skeptical when I expressed my desire to study journalism, an unconventional choice within the convent walls," writes Sr. Adelaide Ndilu. "The fulfillment of my dream was worth the wait."
Jerome Bongiorno and Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, whose latest project focuses on Sts. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini, see their own Catholic faith as a part of their mission as filmmakers.
In Ghana 20 Catholic sisters from 10 congregations gathered to receive media, communication and networking training, to enable them to tell and publish their own stories.
While we're thrilled with the growth we've established in the first year of GSR en español, we're more excited thinking about all that can still be done to expand our international readership — all with the power of language.
GSR has become a close-knit and expansive community where we feel like sisters, united in weaving the dream of a shared prophetic mission and a passion for communicating life in all its dimensions.
