Arts and Media

The Associated Church Press recognized the 2022 journalism of Global Sisters Report with seven awards related to convention coverage and the war in Ukraine.

For the last nine years, Global Sisters Report has been a dynamic online community giving voice to women religious worldwide. Now, we want to learn more about you.

The Christophers, a New York-based nonprofit Catholic communications organization, recently announced the appointment to its board of directors of Pauline Sr. Nancy Usselmann. Usselmann currently heads her order's Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles.

Book review: Loyola University's nationally beloved basketball team chaplain, 103-year-old Sr. Jean Delores Schmidt, has written a delightful memoir that gives the Catholic Church some much-needed positive press.

In Wake Up with Purpose: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years, Schmidt tells her life story, offers spiritual guidance and shares some of the lessons she's learned.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Global Sisters Report's own Ursuline Sr. Michele Morek talks about how her work with columnists finds stories of sisters across the globe who share their lives and cross-cultural experiences.

Here's a roundup of 2022 Global Sisters Report stories to read — or re-read.  

 

When Nicole Swannack signed up for an online book club with the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton last spring, she thought she might learn more about her faith and the life of America's first native-born saint and maybe make a new friend.