Dan Stockman

Discussion and questions during workshops at the annual Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly pointed to the stark reality of a dearth of members able to serve as congregational leaders: Even congregations able to currently install leadership teams have to prepare for a future in which they may not be able to do so. 

At the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' annual assembly, president Rebecca Ann Gemma, a Dominican Sister of Springfield, Illinois, gave the presidential address, telling the sisters they should never lose hope, even with the changes taking place in religious life. 

At the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' annual assembly, attendees will examine how, from the vastness of the universe to the space within us, God creates life, even out of what appears to be destruction and death.

Sharing her dad's passion for the Jesus of the Scriptures, Sr. Maureen Geary was led to the Grand Rapids Dominicans in 1987. On Friday, she'll begin her year as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

It will take generations to find healing from the boarding school system, but the process must start with restoration, said Samuel Torres of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. 

The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.

Bishop Mark Seitz and others call out Trump's Catholic chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, asking him to shield the immigration policy protecting young people brought to the U.S. as children.