Sr. Idelle Badt noticed that when people who are homeless are discharged from hospitals, "they're going to end up right back in the hospital or sicker than they were because they're still too ill to recover on the street."
"We did not realize then that our home was shaping our vocation," said Sr. Philo Kallidukkil, the ninth member of the family and a member of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Ten years after the environmental disaster that devastated Vietnam's central coast and affected thousands of fishing families, women religious focus on livelihoods, accompaniment and long-term healing.
What began with one woman's rejected vocation has grown into a unique contemplative community in rural France: the Little Sisters, Disciples of the Lamb, the world's only congregation that includes sisters with Down syndrome.
"For a religious sister, living in Cuba today means navigating and taking on a series of structural and economic challenges that require an enormous capacity for adaptation and resilience," Sr. Noemy Ayala said.
Sr. Blandina Segale, of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, is one step closer to sainthood. In the 1800s she worked for peace and justice in frontier communities.
A new Italian documentary, "Agnus Dei," follows the Benedictine sisters who care for two lambs whose wool becomes part of a vestment for the pope and archbishops — a centuries-old tradition.
