The first research study into the sexual abuse of women religious in German-speaking countries has shown a common pattern of spiritual abuse with global cases and highlighted that the majority of abuse is perpetrated by men, although some sisters were abused also by women superiors.
As Pope Francis told us: Look to the past with gratitude, live the present with passion, and embrace the future with hope. This threefold approach to reflecting on religious life has become a kind of examen.
Plus, LCWR plans pilgrimage to El Salvador and Honduras; sisters named among Lumen Christi award finalists; and the International Union of Superiors General will hold theological forum and Laudato Si' livestream.
Serving people who lost everything to a typhoon in 2013, I learned that Christ never abandons us. His self-giving sustains us through every situation we face. We are never alone. He strengthens us and accompanies us.
A winding life of curiosity led Dominican Sister Pat Farrell to religious life, a vegan diet and powerlifting. The Californian won her weight class for bench pressing 77 pounds and deadlifting more than her body weight.
