"We always say that the Holy Spirit is the principal formator. We are just instruments trying to understand what the spirit and this person are doing," she said.
After 60 years in religious life, Reiley has worked in Japan with cancer patients and their families, day laborers, refugees, children from troubled homes and communities recovering from disaster.
A Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, Welch's work has been focused on urban revitalization, particularly on the adaptive reuse of church property, both before and after entering the order. "How do we steward those properties to serve the Gospel?"
Sociologist Marla Asis discusses a Vatican-commissioned report documenting how Catholic sisters across Asia serve migrants, refugees and left-behind families with resourceful, holistic and distinctly Catholic care.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Katho dons personal protective equipment each morning, a stark reminder of the deadly stakes for both her patients and her fellow healthcare workers.
Now the administrator of the Caritas Philippines Development Center, Taboclaon previously served as the first Filipina to lead the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good and Perpetual Help in her country.
"Most transgender persons do not want charity. They want love. They want their parents to accept them, their siblings to stand beside them, and society to treat them with dignity," said Sr. Amitha Polimetla.
Combining her advanced surgical training with her vocation as a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, Long has spent decades providing critical, life-altering healthcare to underserved populations in Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and parts of Africa.
