Converting convents to senior housing of one form or another is not new for congregations in the United States, but it is a trend that is growing as sisters reckon with capital assets they no longer need.
For over three decades, The Adorers of the Blood of Christ sisters have given affordable health care, comfort and compassion to the poor and marginalized of metro Manila at St. Maria De Mattias Mission Center.
In an era of rapidly advancing medical technology, the American health care system is increasingly driven by the pursuit of efficiency and profit. But what happens when faith enters the picture? What does it mean to serve the sick and vulnerable for love of Christ?
The SMART Couples Methodology program, facilitated by the Dominican Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Zambia, aims to strengthen family life by overcoming mistrust and fostering mutual respect between partners.
Living in remote regions of a country with limited access to resources and high rates of gender-based violence is difficult, but in Papua New Guinea, the St. Joseph Sisters of Cluny are up for the challenge.
In camps in Benue State, Sr. Mary Ojonugwa Unwuchola and other Nigerian sisters console displaced survivors grieving lost loved ones and lost homes. She does not offer easy answers, but presence, prayer and acts of care.
Nigeria's Benue State has been torn by the farmer-herder crisis, and farming communities have endured brutal attacks. In the Makurdi Diocese, Fr. Remigius Ihyula and Sr. Mary Ojonugwa Unwuchola care for traumatized survivors.
Xavier was established in 1925 by St. Katharine Drexel on the financial strength of the multimillion-dollar inheritance she received from her Philadelphia father's banking estate. Stories are legendary about how the socially conscious heiress — a slight but energetic nun who overcame the hostility and indifference of society and the church — established an amazing network of schools, churches and missions specifically for Blacks and Native Americans.
