Dan Stockman

Fort Wayne

National Correspondent at National Catholic Reporter

National Correspondent at Global Sisters Report

National Correspondent for National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report. Writer and father who's inexplicably fascinated by chickens.

Articles

ENTREVISTA | Hna. Helen Prejean y la lucha del papa Francisco contra la pena de muerte

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman

Independientemente de lo que haga el papa León XIV —o cualquier papa en el futuro— con respecto a la pena de muerte, parece que ninguno tendrá un impacto tan grande como Francisco.
Sisters began a day care for Kansas City's working poor. Now, it's a huge operation.

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.
Sisters began a day care for Kansas City's working poor. Now, it's a huge operation.

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.
Leadership Collaborative gathering in Rome unites sisters from 45 countries

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Helga Leija

There were nearly 200 sisters gathered in Rome for the five-day event and another 100 sisters joining online. But don't call it a conference. Hope 2025, a gathering organized by the Leadership Collaborative for Catholic sisters under the age of 65, was part retreat, part networking event, part guided prayer and part space for connection. But there were no keynote speakers, no workshops.
Q&A with Sr. Helen Prejean, on Pope Francis' fight against the death penalty

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.
At this Missouri motherhouse, sisters from 4 congregations coexist

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Monique Tarabeh |Christine Schenk

"Evolving Religious Life," a continuing series from Global Sisters Report, explores how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of religious life. While we write often about these trends, this particular series will focus more closely on sisters' hopes for the future. It's a normal Tuesday evening in the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and five sisters are relaxing in their common area.
Monday Starter: Catholic Health Association denounces Trump's Medicaid cuts

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman

The Catholic Health Association of the United States decried the proposal to help pay for tax breaks by cutting Medicaid, the federal health insurance program that serves the poor. In a proposal unveiled May 11, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are working on a massive $4.5 trillion package of tax cuts that President Donald Trump has called for.
GSR writers win Associated Church Press awards, including award of excellence

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.
Sisters hopeful synodal process of ‘walking together’ will continue under new pope

1 month ago | catholicoutlook.org | Chris Herlinger |Dan Stockman

Catholic sisters hoping that the new pope would continue Pope Francis’ efforts to make the church less clerical and more inclusive of lay people may have had that prayer answered with the selection of the first pope from the U.S., Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, 69, has been a vocal proponent of Francis’ emphasis on synodality, which emerged early in the conclave as an important issue to a significant bloc of cardinals who can vote in the conclave.
Pope Leo XIV to church authority: 'Make oneself small' to glorify Christ

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Christopher White |Shannon Evans |John Grosso |Dan Stockman

Pope Leo XIV implored clergy in church authority to "make oneself small" in order to glorify Christ, echoing a theme of his predecessor Pope Francis in his first public Mass on May 9.