In a farewell interview, former GSR editor Gail DeGeorge reflects on what media gets wrong about sisters, trends in religious life, and how sisters influenced her spirituality.
Masthan Sahib, a 65-year-old Muslim, talks to GSR about his four decades of working with Catholic nuns in a leprosy rehabilitation center in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
When Pope Francis ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible," it gave the church "official teachings so we couldn't have bishops going against it," said St. Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean.
In 1978, Good Shepherd Sr. Louise Horgan founded the Fatima Self-Help Centre in Bangkok, dedicated to helping women and girls break the cycle of poverty through skills training, enabling them to secure livelihoods.
"We invite all women scholars and women who work in pastoral or professional fields and are interested in theology and its relationship to their work," Puen said.
Sr. Laurentina Suharsih received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indonesian government for her anti-trafficking ministry. Suharsih spoke to Global Sisters Report about her work.
