With a busy week of marches, workshops and a U.N. summit behind them, sisters and other Catholics say they must continue and expand their work to increase public pressure for change on climate action.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation said its 2023 Humanitarian Prize will be awarded to the One Acre Fund, which reaches a network of 4 million farm families across nine African countries through a direct service program.
On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Fr. Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation's capital, noted that the campus ministry program there was making history of its own, with the blessing and dedication of its new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center.
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, says Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, the nun at the center of a dispute over allegedly broken vows, may be excommunicated, along with the rest of the nuns at her monastery.
Amid rising violence in some Indigenous communities over land rights in Brazil, sisters there say that, if necessary, they'll fight alongside the original inhabitants to protect their land.
A course in September at the headquarters of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in Rome will help women religious learn more about migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Catholic Extension has announced seven finalists for its 2023-2024 Lumen Christi Award, and two of those named told OSV News they're both surprised and encouraged.
