Four vowed religious women are helping others to discern, offering opportunities for prayer and reflection through the House of Discernment in Pittsburgh, which also provides a unique form of intentional community.
Amid declining numbers of U.S. sisters, many are asking what will happen to their associates once the sisters cannot lead them anymore or if the congregation no longer exists.
With President Donald Trump overseeing massive sudden cuts to the United States Agency for International Development, sisters and organizers express grave concern for the global health ramifications.
An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official says.
In response to the effects of climate change, Sr. Juunza Mwangani, who is the project manager of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, recognized opportunity among the people of southern Zambia, who are farmers by nature.
Haiti's problems are seemingly almost never-ending. Advocates — like congregational representatives at the U.N. — say the beleaguered country needs more attention and more support from the global community.
"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their needs are," said Adrian Dominican Sr. Rosemary Finnegan in a recent interview.
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the U.S. We asked panelists: What does your community do to address the issue of trafficking and exploitation, particularly of vulnerable women and children?
"If forgiving your enemy is not weakness, what is it?" Sr. Helen Prejean, a leading voice in the abolition of the death penalty, talks with John Dear on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast."
