Top 25 ‘Most Thanked’ stories on GlobalSistersReport.org

This week marks Global Sisters Report’s first anniversary as a website bringing you news about Catholic sisters around the world and the people they work with – as well as their own knowledge and opinions through their writing.

In fact, we’ve published work by nearly 200 different people and posted 1,257 different articles – from GSR Today blogs, to the Visual Life feature, Three Stats and a Map, A Nun’s Life podcasts and the many columns by sisters. Of course there is also news from our reporters, NCR’s contributions and the stories we share from Catholic News Service.

At the bottom of each article is a button prompting readers to “say thanks.” It’s a way we can count notes of appreciation.

As of last Friday, 25 articles had received 400 or more “thanks” from you.

If you haven’t read these stories, or you want to take another look at what you thought was most worthwhile, here’s the list:

  1. Jesus and women: 'You are set free' by Elizabeth Johnson (860 thanks!)
  2. The global sisterhood: nowhere and everywhere by Joan Chittister (767 thanks!)
  3. Scripture scholar sister’s trailblazing journey of teaching, compassion by Retta Blaney (754 thanks!)
  4. Renewing the conversation between faith and science by Ilia Delio (708 thanks!)
  5. Ministering to unaccompanied immigrant children by Megan Sweas
  6. African beatitudes and GSR: Sisters on the ground in Nairobi by Jill Day
  7. Iraqi sisters stay as civilians flee Mosul by Dawn Cherie Araujo
  8. Entering a new reality: Kolwezi, the Democratic Republic of Congo by Clare Nolan
  9. Part two, Jesus and women: 'You are set free' by Elizabeth Johnson
  10. Nuns reach out to sex workers in fight against prostitution in the Philippines by N.J. Viehland
  11. Easter hope for South Sudan by Chris Herlinger
  12. Leadership in challenging times by Dawn Cherie Araujo
  13. A reflection on religious vocation: The wine is ready, but the wineskin is not by Sophia Park
  14. Sisters making mainstream headlines, May 16, 2014 edition by Lisa Gutierrez
  15. A model for Catholic urban education  by Elizabeth Eisenstadt-Evans
  16. A light shines in Uganda  by Joyce Meyer
  17. An academic look at the Apostolic Visitation by Dawn Cherie Arajuo
  18. Engage the future: Reflections on the apostolic visitation report by Sandra M. Schneiders
  19. Party of one by Colleen Gibson
  20. In a farm led by nuns, poverty energizes by N.J. Viehland
  21. Living the joy of the Gospel by Anne Kiragu
  22. Nairobi sisters up close by GSR Staff
  23. Religious Formation Conference at 60: 'Relocating the Prophetic Witness of Religious Life' by Dawn Cherie Araujo
  24. A ministry at the top of the world by Dawn Cherie Araujo
  25. The church and the divided brain by Ilia Delio