At 82, this diminutive Dominican nun has spent more than half a century defending human rights and putting words to the horrors she has witnessed as a poet, an activist, a public speaker and an organizer.
The Mines Advisory Group, which focuses on removing landmines and working with affected communities, is the recipient of this year's Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
Hiding my face from the horrors of the world might protect me from them to some degree, but it also removes me from the beauty that might emerge and from my own call to respond to the heartache.
"We don't have a national peace movement as it relates to nuclear weapons… It just went off people's radar," said Sr. Carol Gilbert, a prominent anti-nuclear activist.
Vatican II brought us closer to the truth that the church is not a hierarchy but the whole people of God. As the world changes, our conscious listening should bring us closer to the realities faced by vulnerable groups.
Dublin-born Mercy Sr. Mary Killeen has spent nearly five decades transforming lives in one of Kenya's most impoverished corners. Her story is a tapestry of faith, grit and relentless service — a testament to the power of small acts done with great love.
The new foreign agents law in El Salvador is "a copy of the one in Nicaragua with the same objectives of social control and control of criticism against human rights abuses," said one political analyst.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition share their experience living through Myanmar's civil war since the country's military seized power in 2021.
