Just a few blocks from Rome's famous Trevi Fountain, the visitors' office is where hundreds of Americans go on Tuesday afternoons to pick up their tickets for the pope's weekly general audience on Wednesdays. They are welcomed by the Mercy Sisters of Alma, Michigan, aided by U.S. priests and seminarians studying in Rome.
Though common knowledge warns against anyone wandering into La Línea, Sr. Angélica Segoviano has gained daily access by establishing trust with the women she visits. It takes time before they open up to her about their lives and worries, their initial suspicion born of the fact that some have gone years without anyone simply asking how they're doing.
In 2003, Muia established Upendo Village, which is now a modern facility designed to support people living with HIV in low-income communities, about 60 miles northwest of Nairobi, Kenya.
In a statement after the first tumultuous week of the second Trump presidency, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said sisters must be fearless in embodying the Gospel amid a "rapid dismantling of values."
The Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, known as CLAR, has responded to online reports that a group of Poor Clares had been expelled from Nicaragua.
"They acted on their wits; I am just so full of admiration for them. They knew what was ahead: arrest, torture and deportation, execution. The risks were enormous," said Clodagh Finn, author of The Irish in the Resistance.
"I am simply doing what any responsible citizen and baptized Christian would do": Sr. Sujata Jena accompanies interstate migrants from rural villages who move to South Indian states in search of employment for survival.
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the U.S. We asked panelists: What does your community do to address the issue of trafficking and exploitation, particularly of vulnerable women and children?
"If forgiving your enemy is not weakness, what is it?" Sr. Helen Prejean, a leading voice in the abolition of the death penalty, talks with John Dear on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast."