According to Sister Mary Luke Tobin, S.L., Catholic women don’t want to receive an award for best supporting actress if they’re not allowed to help play the...
Women religious
Read stories about religious women working in powerful ways to fulfill their Catholic calling, such as studying cosmology and fighting for migrant rights.
When the church gets you down, you can always serve the poor. I met Sister Maura on my first night working in an overnight shelter on Chicago’s Southwest Side...
Two years ago, we ran a survey asking women religious to respond to the Vatican investigation. While we’ve yet to hear an official response from the...
To protect consumers and the environment, women religious lead the growing movement that’s taking on powerful corporations—one share at a time. On May 6 this...
Here are some links to get you investing with some social responsibility. As You Sow News on socially responsible investing Business & Human Rights...
When I heard the news that four U.S. church women, including Jean Donovan, were raped and killed in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980, I was a senior at Duke...
Just weeks after the visitation of American women religious congregations was announced, the Leadership Conference of Women’s Religious (LCWR) learned...
If U.S. women religious need voices in their defense, U.S. Catholic readers are happy to testify. Not only do they sing the praises of sisters who have taught...
Religious congregations are not franchises of the Vatican “central office.” More like families than corporations, sisters have different missions...
In honor of Father Damien’s beatification on October 11, we revisit a story from 2000 about Molokai. The church continues to care for the settlements...
