The UN CSocD priority theme for their meeting in 2020, “Affordable Housing and Social Protection for all to address Homelessness” and the Vincentian Family.
Global Sisters Report
At UN Development Meetings, Sisters Present Pathways to Eradicate Poverty
Sabitri Dakhal and her husband, Nilaram Dakhal, were struggling to make ends meet, as do many residents of the west...
Sisters Killed ‘Would do Anything for their Patients’
Four weeks ago, Sr. Ruth Hoerig got a rare chance to spend some time with her good friend Sr. Margaret Held, who was...
Immigration reform: Personal Perspectives Part 2
The following is the second of a two-post series on personal perspectives on Immigration Reform (to read Part 1, click here). We begin with a video in which Sr. Mary McCauley (an advocate for comprehensive immigration reform) talks about the Postville immigration...
Immigration Reform: Personal Perspectives – Part 1
Immigration reform in the United States is the topic of many conversations, especially so with the upcoming presidential elections this fall. Two articles recently published by the Global Sisters Report touch on this topic, one, an interview with Sr. Mary McCauley who...
Inter-Mission: Springtime of body and soul
In her latest reflection for the NCR series Global Sisters Report "Inter-Mission: Springtime of body and soul" Janet Gildea SC connects the dots between her remission from cancer and the parable of the power of the Pope's visit to heal the suffering and violence...
Take courage
In Take courage Sr. Janet Gildea, a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, shares her ongoing journey through chemotherapy. I received my fifth chemo yesterday, sleeping through most of the six hour infusion while listening to “All Things Bright and Beautiful” as...
