GSR Today - Elizabethada Wright is researching Mother Mary Joseph Lynch, a 19th-century Sister of Mercy whose boarding school in Minnesota reflected a drive to integrate Native Americans into the dominant white culture.
The people, while having faith in Jesus as the Prince of Peace, wonder when the peace Jesus' presence implies will ever come to Congo. For 26 or more Christmases, peace has not come.
A court in the Philippine capital Manila acquitted 10 members of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, including two nuns, from perjury charges Jan. 9.
On the feast of the Holy Innocents, I think of the faces of the children killed in Uvalde, Texas. Earlier this year, their photos were an unrelenting, "in your face" testament to the plague of gun violence in the U.S.
Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us that we are not called to be lone prophets saving the world on our own. Rather, we are called to recognize that each issue or event affects each and every one of us at some level.
Catholic nuns in India lament the development of what they consider an unnecessary controversy — one that equates their veil with the hijab, which is banned in academic institutions in the state of Karnataka.
Sr. Patricia Daly, a Dominican Sister of Caldwell, New Jersey, for 47 years and a pioneer of corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing, died Dec. 9, 2022. She was 66 years old.
Nigerian sisters and their communities are raising awareness about violence against women and child abuse and spreading their prevention mechanisms among young people in Nigeria.
Jair Bolsonaro manipulated the deep religious sentiment of the Brazilian people and put the country's historic destiny at stake. But many consecrated men and women were committed to warn about the danger to democracy.
