Chris Herlinger

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Dan Stockman |Julie A. Ferraro |Chris Herlinger

Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas — both Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — had hoped to work themselves out of a job. They weren't able to do that, but the nonprofit they started in 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, is still going strong, even though Bussanmas died in 2021 and Sailer died in January 2024 and both had retired years before. In some ways, the institution known as Operation Breakthrough is stronger than ever.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Julie A. Ferraro |Chris Herlinger

Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas — both Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — had hoped to work themselves out of a job. They weren't able to do that, but the nonprofit they started in 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, is still going strong, even though Bussanmas died in 2021 and Sailer died in January 2024 and both had retired years before. In some ways, the institution known as Operation Breakthrough is stronger than ever.

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Chris Herlinger

No matter what Pope Leo XIV — or any future pope — does in regard to the death penalty, it seems none will have as great an impact as Pope Francis. In August 2018, the Vatican announced Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Chris Herlinger |Justin Mclellan

Editor's note: This story is part of Global Sisters Report's yearlong series, "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," which will focus on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to this global phenomenon. In covering the work of Catholic sisters for nearly a decade, I have been consistently impressed by sisters' modesty and humility. Sisters rarely like to have the spotlight on themselves, or even their congregations. The ministries are what is important and paramount.

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Doreen Ajiambo |Katie Scott |Chris Herlinger

In separate honors, Chris Herlinger, GSR's international correspondent, won three DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards by the Religion Communicators Council. In the category of writing for periodicals, Herlinger won best in class for reporting in 2024 from Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. One of the judges said: "Emotionally engaging and historically educational, this series is mesmerizing.