Pope meets with NBA players' union delegation at the Vatican
- Nov 23, 2020
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Dominican sister shot, injured delivering food in southern Mexico
- Nov 20, 2020
A Dominican sister was shot in the leg as her humanitarian relief team came under gunfire from paramilitaries in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state.
Daughters of Charity made the streets their cloister
- Nov 9, 2020
The Daughters of Charity were a centralized and hierarchical order, under the authority of an elected superior general. This new model gave a strong unity to the sisters trained and used to act in the same way.
Fear of death replaced with joy of accompanying souls to eternal life
- Oct 18, 2020
Michaela Gallagher was a 16-year-old volunteer at the Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence for the elderly poor in Somerville, Massachusetts, when she witnessed a human die for the first time in her young life.
Those who accompany the dying inspired by ‘Samaritanus bonus’
- Oct 18, 2020
Much attention was given to church teaching on assisted suicide and euthanasia when the Vatican released its Sept. 22 letter “‘Samaritanus bonus,’ on the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life,” but Sister Maureen Weiss focused on the document’s guidance on accompanying the dying, a key component to her vocation.
Caring for children: Religious sisters launch global push for reform
- Oct 12, 2020
Religious sisters have launched a global movement to overhaul the way religious orders practice their “charism of care” for orphaned or abandoned children.
Southern Africa bishops name third woman religious as secretary general
- Oct 5, 2020
The bishops of southern Africa have appointed another woman to head their conference’s general secretariat, succeeding a religious sister who had served in that position for eight years.
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