Global Sisters Report

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria

Durante más de 40 años Ajita Mathew Vettikuzhakunnel, una religiosa de las Hermanas Misioneras de la Reina de los Apóstoles, ha trabajado entre campesinas de las diócesis de Gorakhpur, Varanasi y Lucknow, en el norte de la India. A esta abogada de 68 años, doctora en Ciencias Sociales, se le atribuye el mérito de haber puesto en marcha en septiembre de 2023 una empresa agrícola, propiedad de mujeres rurales y dirigida por ellas.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos |James V. Grimaldi

Robert Prevost was born on Sept. 14, 1955, in a hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy on Chicago's South Side. Four years ago, facing bankruptcy, the nuns sold Mercy Hospital to a technology firm. Growing up, Prevost attended St. Mary of the Assumption Parish. The parish became too expensive for the Chicago Archdiocese to maintain in the early 2010s. The parish buildings were closed and put up for sale, and the parish merged with another in 2011.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman

Catholic sisters responded with joy to the news of the election of Pope Leo XIV on May 8, praising his past work and looking to the future with a pontiff committed to following the path set by the late Pope Francis. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elevated to pope about 6 p.m. Rome time, and it wasn't long before women religious responded. "With joy, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious welcomes Pope Leo XIV as the new head of the Catholic Church," the group said in a statement.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.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.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Christopher White

After three rounds of voting, cardinals have yet to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Black smoke billowed again from the Sistine Chapel chimney about 11:50 a.m.on May 8, sending another signal to the world that no new pope had been elected in the effort to elect a successor to Pope Francis. The smoke signal was the second in less than 24 hours and took place after three rounds of voting. Ballots are burned twice a day — one after two rounds of morning voting and again in the afternoon.