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"People here want to care for their land, their surroundings, nature, to prevent the water they consume from contamination," Sr. Carmela Pérez Morales, who attended the gathering, told Global Sisters Report.
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Ogunkuade sees both medicine and religious life as parts of a single calling. "Physical healing can become a doorway to spiritual transformation," she said.
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"The life of Christ and the life of the prophets call me to take his spirit with me into my work and my political choices forever," writes Sr. Emily TeKolste.
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Voters will consider culture war issues in many states this Election Day. Some activists cite a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision about nuns and Catholic schools.
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"This fall, I've been all about baseball's World Series, because my hometown team, the Milwaukee Brewers, just won the title," writes Sr. Jane Marie Bradish.
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"For me, cinema cannot be reduced to a mere hobby or a way of relaxing," writes Sr. Robancy A. Helen. "It has taught me to observe and analyze situations, people and society."
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Founded in 1904, the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital is currently managed by Sr. Annette Dimigen and Sr. Chris Schmotzer, Protestant German sisters of the Sisterhood of Christ Bearers.
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In a town hall event televised Oct. 17, Sr. Nancy Sylvester asks Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Catholic, how he can justify ICE's enforcement tactics to people of faith.
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From 2024:
"Where does God's will fit in? What's the best result for the common good? What outcome best serves everyone, including the people who are most disadvantaged?"
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"Neighbors greet each other with 'Did you see the game?' instead of ignoring each other," Sr. Jane Marie Bradish writes. "There is something to be said about standing on the sidewalk with complete strangers cheering yourself voiceless to celebrate."
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At event tied to Season of Creation, Catholic sisters and Franciscan friars in El Salvador support a rural community fighting water contamination and a landfill near CECOT, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates.
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The most famous chaplain, however, was a nun, not a priest — Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt of Loyola Chicago.
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"God meets us in different ways at different times and what once seemed ordinary can become extraordinary when embraced with sincerity," writes one sister.
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As the November midterm elections approach, Catholics across the United States are preparing to pray and keep vigil, asking for peaceful polling places, honest vote-counting, and protection for voters.
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From September:
Carmelite sisters in El Salvador welcomed a relic of St. John of the Cross to the chapel where St. Óscar Romero was martyred.
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Sr. Carol Zinn told NCR that many sisters and sisters' associates are volunteering to peacefully oversee polling stations and that the prayer gatherings ahead of the elections are "political and not partisan."
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These four Benedictine sisters, from four different monasteries in four different states, now travel the country — in matching polo shirts — setting up and running the technology for Benedictine gatherings, whether in person, online or hybrid.
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From April:
On Kenya's fragile plains south of Nairobi, where drought has killed millions of livestock and hunger is spreading across the dry lands, Maasai farmers and Catholic sisters are reshaping how communities survive.
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As Ebola infections rise in eastern Congo, Catholic sisters face shortages of protective supplies and growing difficulties reaching communities already devastated by years of armed conflict.
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"It's about calling attention to what is happening around us. It's about celebrating together and mourning together. It's about bearing witness together." —Sr. Eilis McCulloh
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