Q&As

Benedictine Sr. Sue Fazzini and an inmate at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Greene play with a puppy in training for Canine Partners for Life, a Chester County, Pennsylvania-based organization dedicated to training service dogs, home comp

Q & A with Sr. Sue Fazzini: 'We over-incarcerate people in our country'

Sep 8, 2020

For more than 15 years, Benedictine Sr. Sue Fazzini has put a spotlight on the humanity of prisoners. She heads the drug and alcohol treatment program at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Greene.

Q & A with Therese Stawowy: 'I want to keep feeling that discomfort with white privilege'

by Carol K. Coburn

Sep 1, 2020

Decades before social media made internet trolling a common practice, Therese Stawowy knew what it was like to receive virulent hate mail from known and unknown sources. As a Sister of Loretto, she participated in the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.

Q & A with Sr. Louisa Abid, providing health care in Cameroon in the face of war and COVID-19

by Joyce Meyer

Aug 25, 2020

In Cameroon, Sr. Louisa Abid Sister of St. Therese of the Child Jesus of Buea, has been the health coordinator for the Bamenda Archdiocese three years, about as long as the civil war has been going on. She is responsible for 25 facilities, including five hospitals, 11 medical centers and six primary health centers.

Q & A with Sr. Jane Herb, new president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious

by Soli Salgado

Aug 20, 2020

Sr. Jane Herb's lifetime in Catholic education has provided her with an innate understanding of complex systems and big-picture thinking, one she'll now put toward the ministry of national leadership as sisters contend with restructuring communities to fit their membership. Herb, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan, was elected president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on June 29.

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Q & A with Sr. Sue Fazzini: 'We over-incarcerate people in our country'

Q & A with Therese Stawowy: 'I want to keep feeling that discomfort with white privilege'

Q & A with Sr. Louisa Abid, providing health care in Cameroon in the face of war and COVID-19

Q & A with Sr. Jane Herb, new president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious

Q & A with Sr. Rosemary Flanigan: 1965 and 2020 'are different worlds'

Q & A with Sr. Vimala Joseph Thottumannil, architect of churches and chapels worldwide

Q & A with Sr. Barbara Moore on US civil rights struggles 55 years after Selma

Q & A with Shamima Sakendar, a Muslim student whose story about a Catholic sister became a short film

Q & A with Abbess Máire Hickey: the impact of COVID-19 on her Benedictines' centennial

Q & A with Sr. Mary Margaret Ajiko, a surgeon saving infants' lives in Uganda

Q & A with Sr. Irene O'Neill, launching a platform for Sisters Rising Worldwide

Q & A with Dr. Valérie Julie Brousseau, helping Canadian religious communities prevent COVID-19

Q & A with Sr. Judy Zielinski, producer of new documentary on Nicholas Black Elk

Q & A with Sr. Maria Do Thi Quyen, supporting ethnic families affected by Vietnam's COVID-19 lockdown

Q & A with Julie McElmurry, zooming in on monastic life with documentaries

Q & A with Sr. Winnie Mutuku, feeding street children in a pandemic

Q & A with Sr. M. Elise Kriss on 27 years as a university president

Q & A with Sister Magdalene Teresa on supporting mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Q & A with Sr. Rosemarie González, sheltering those recovering from addiction

Q & A with Sr. Rose Nelima, advocating for deaf students in Uganda

Q & A with Sr. Anna Koop, a Catholic Worker ministering to Denver's homeless

Q & A with Sr. Judith Ann Karam on the importance of being counted in the 2020 US census

Q & A with Mercy Sr. Eileen Boffa, seeing beauty, God in people living on the streets

Q & A with Sr. Mary Anna Gomes, transforming lives through media

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