Pope Leo XIV's visit to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea highlighted the church's growth in Africa and ongoing questions about representation and leadership.
When it comes to unneeded buildings and property with built-in challenges, such as out of the way locations or buildings too expensive to heat and maintain but not worth renovating, sisters find new ways to make them useful.
Daughter of Charity Sr. Liza Ruedas travels throughout the Philippines, working to educate and inspire students, farmers and Indigenous communities about ways to counter corruption and build a nation of justice.
In a May 8 email to supporters, the Eudist Servants of the 11th Hour said Sr. Mary Francis had been informed by a mobile home park management company that she was an "unlawful occupant" at a property in the Ocean Bluffs Mobile Home Estates community.
"We hope with all our hearts that the war will end," said Sr. Camille Fermina Herraiz Martinez, 80. "We have to continue to live and to give war its own meaning. Life does not stop because of the war."
Sr. Nadir Santos da Silva, 45, a member of the Carmelite Sisters Messengers of the Holy Spirit, was swept into deeper water May 11 near Catania while helping another nun who could not swim.
At Paramprasad Ashram, most of the women are elderly. Some were abandoned at hospitals, and some were rescued from abusers and traffickers. "We are here to give them dignity," says Sister Jonamma, who serves at the home.
