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- Jan 22, 2020
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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.
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.
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.
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.
LCWR calls on Trump to stop ‘divisive and polarizing rhetoric’
- Aug 16, 2019
Delegates at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious’ annual assembly, meeting in Scottsdale, approved a letter to be sent to President Donald Trump asking that he stop using “divisive and polarizing rhetoric.”
Today’s generation of women religious forge cross-conference relationships
- Jun 23, 2019
Religious sisters in the U.S. are trying to come to terms with the split thirty years ago into two umbrella organizations, LCWR and CMSWR.
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