Starting in 1971 as a small rural health care center, Monze Mission Hospital has grown to be the premier hospital in the area, specializing in combating high maternal death rates.
At the Holy Trinity Home for Children in Quezon City, the Trinitarian Handmaids of the Divine Word shelter children who have been victims of sexual abuse, and provide them mental health care and education.
While women religious may be vocal and courageous about the violence and injustice others face, they often remain silent and intimidated when it comes to speaking up about their own fears and abuse, one superior general said at an international safeguarding conference in Rome.
Theologians Sr. Maeve Heaney and Sr. Maria Cimperman discuss the continuities between Pope Francis and his predecessors, his relationship with liberation theology, and their hopes for Pope Leo XIV.
Nearly 20 years after seizing a convent, the government returned it to the congregation in 1994. "We were overjoyed," one sister said. "It felt like a miracle."
As theologians, Srs. Maeve Heaney and Maria Cimperman revisit Pope Francis' pastoral theology, the impact of his ecological encyclical Laudato Si', and his push for a synodal church.
