Brooke Nichols, a professor of global health who models infectious diseases and used to work on a USAID-funded program herself, is crunching the numbers to quantify the impact of the pullback on U.S. humanitarian aid.
The Vatican has appointed a new bishop for India’s Jalandhar Diocese in Punjab, years after Bishop Franco Mulakkal stepped down despite a court clearing him of charges of raping a nun.
Everywhere I turned during the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, women from every corner of the world were sharing solutions to the world's challenges. And right there, at the center of it all, were sisters.
What would an anti-racist, equitable church look like? The first letter to the Corinthians (10:17) offers a vision: "Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf."
Pope Francis made migration a priority, leaving a challenge "not to see this as an invitation we received during a particular papacy, but the depth of an inner call. Not to see it as temporal, but as universal."
Plus, the Pentecost Project at the Vatican offers journalism training courses to sisters, and the Religious Formation Conference honors Sr. Ellen Dauwer.
I found 21st-century liberation theology amid Peruvian women's networks, creating communities with sweat and tears, fixing lunch for the villagers, and helping the needy.
