Katie Scott

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.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Katie Scott

This month, Catholic university presidents across the country will bestow diplomas bearing their signatures to thousands of graduating students. But over the past few weeks, dozens of these leaders, including the heads of Notre Dame, Georgetown, Boston College and Fordham, also put their names to a very different kind of document — one speaking out against the Trump administration's unprecedented government overreach and political interference that is endangering higher education.

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Katie Scott |Brian Fraga |Heidi Schlumpf |Camillo Barone

Massimiliano Strappetti, the nurse who is Pope Francis' primary medical caregiver at the Vatican, adjusts a microphone for the pope as he greets a crowd of well-wishers at Rome's Gemelli hospital before returning to the Vatican March 23, 2025. (CNS/Pablo Esparza) Pope Francis' final moments were peaceful, and he managed to give one last farewell to his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, before slipping into a coma early April 21, Vatican News reported.

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Katie Scott |James Martin |Bryan Massingale |Jeannine Gramick

Michael Sennett, age 8 and preparing for his first Communion, was told by a priest he must stop pretending to be a boy and that his desire to wear a suit for the sacrament was sinful. In fact, it was a straight shot to hell. Twenty years later, on a fall afternoon in Rome, Pope Francis hugged Sennett in his private residence.

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Katie Scott |Brian Fraga

Linda Ekstrom knelt in the front pew and prayed silently following the April 22 midday Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in Fall River, Massachusetts. A few feet in front of her, a framed portrait of Pope Francis, surrounded by flowers, stood in front of the cathedral's sanctuary. Ekstrom, a resident of Tiverton, Rhode Island, said she prayed for the church and for Francis, who died at age 88 on April 21, Easter Monday. She said she was shocked to learn of the pope's death.