On the final day of the LCWR annual assembly, Aug. 14, sisters took part in a walk to lament, pray for, and advocate on issues including forced migration, racism and climate change.
On the final day of the LCWR annual assembly, Aug. 14, sisters took part in a walk to lament, pray for, and advocate on issues including forced migration, racism and climate change.
A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said July 23 that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day's Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone.
Sister Theresa Aletheia and Sister Danielle Lussier are the only community of religious sisters in the Catholic Church fully dedicated to serving abuse victims.
With oil drilling threats looming in a federally protected reserve the size of South Carolina, faith leaders hope to reframe the Arctic as an ecosystem essential to life.
As Mexicans show their zeal for soccer everywhere during FIFA's World Cup 2026, families of Mexico's more than 130,000 disappeared want the country to have that same obsession for those who are missing.
"I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process," Sr. Rose Kuhn tells unaccompanied minors facing deportation in court. "I'm here to accompany you."
After immigration agents detained a nun from his diocese, Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, called for the reform of protocols allowing the capture of people of faith on their way to church.
The Department of Justice has moved to become a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against New York state filed by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who operate a 42-bed palliative care program for the dying poor.
