David Quinn, director of the Iona Institute, a Dublin-based religious think tank, told OSV News July 15, "There was a rush to believe the worst about the nuns and about Catholic Ireland."
The June 14 "No Kings" marches and rallies, held nationwide, were organized to protest the Trump administration's policies on immigration and the social safety net.
Plus, U.S. sisters give millions to Franciscan Action Network; new book highlights social activism of Canadian sisters; and sisters plan June 24 protest against U.S. budget cuts.
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.
