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  • Catholic organizations rush to oppose proposed asylum changes

    Catholic organizations rush to oppose proposed asylum changes

    • Jul 17, 2020

    Catholic organizations and others who fear that proposed changes by the Trump administration will all but eliminate the asylum system rushed to meet a July 15 deadline to make their voices heard.  

    By Rhina Guidos
  • Faith leaders call for ‘Day of Mourning and Lament’ for victims of virus

    Faith leaders call for ‘Day of Mourning and Lament’ for victims of virus

    • May 29, 2020

    The Leadership Conference of Women Religious said May 27 it will join a group of over 100 national faith leaders — from Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions — who have called for a National Day of Mourning and Lament June 1 for those who have died from COVID-19.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Catholic organizations urge communities to respond to U.S. census

    Catholic organizations urge communities to respond to U.S. census

    • Mar 29, 2020

    A baker’s dozen of Catholic organizations, from dioceses to religious orders to Catholic Charities affiliates, have signed on to a joint statement urging all to take part in the 2020 U.S. census.

    By Mark Pattison
  • Nuns, Catholic groups work to blunt the scourge of human trafficking

    Nuns, Catholic groups work to blunt the scourge of human trafficking

    • Feb 15, 2020

    Catholic organizations, from women’s religious orders to corporate watchdog groups, are working on many fronts to stem the scourge — and the crime — of human trafficking.

    By Mark Pattison
  • U.S. women religious urged to think globally even as they work locally

    U.S. women religious urged to think globally even as they work locally

    • Aug 25, 2019

    The desert, Sister Pat Murray told the Leadership Conference of Women Religious Aug. 14, is where God works wonders.

    By Dan Stockman
  • Face facts, says LCWR official, sisters have been part of abuse scandal

    Face facts, says LCWR official, sisters have been part of abuse scandal

    • Aug 25, 2019

    Catholic sisters must face the reality that they have also been part of the sexual abuse scandal in the Church, said Holy Cross Sister Sharlet Wagner.

    By Dan Stockman
  • LCWR award recipient embraces ‘holy chaos’ of her ministry to migrants

    LCWR award recipient embraces ‘holy chaos’ of her ministry to migrants

    • Aug 20, 2019

    As the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.-Mexico border, Sister Norma Pimentel sees up to 800 migrants every day pouring into her center in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. The center is often their first stop after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    By Soli Salgado and Dan Stockman
  • Outgoing LCWR president asks women religious ‘to model hope’ amid despair

    Outgoing LCWR president asks women religious ‘to model hope’ amid despair

    • Aug 19, 2019

    Despite the twists and turns of a world filled with hateful rhetoric and political division, a church beset by a decades-long abuse scandal and the diminishing number of women religious, Catholic sisters are called to stand together and be models of hope, Sister Sharlet Wagner said in her Aug. 15 presidential address to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious’ annual assembly.

    By Dan Stockman
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