Gail DeGeorge

With "Hope Amid Turmoil," the most ambitious and challenging project we have undertaken at GSR, we've been inspired by the incredible courage and deep faith of sisters serving in conflict areas throughout the world.

Church-based ministries and humanitarian programs in Haiti continue their work despite the considerable and daunting challenges.

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. 

GSR Today - Amid the news and controversy about the Los Angeles Dodgers and the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," GSR editor Gail DeGeorge sees a teaching moment to inform many about real Catholic sisters.

Three species of sea turtles still return to South Florida's beaches to lay their eggs, and groups like Ecological Associates are helping keep their nests safe. The biggest threats to turtles, of course, are humans.

Encuentro Eclesial is a recurring event that brings together Cuban bishops, priests, women religious and laypeople in both the U.S. and Cuba. The two groups have established friendship through 20 years of connection.

Cuban Catholics, ordained and lay, on both sides of the Florida Strait, have connected to strengthen Cuban parishes and civil society; they aim to build bridges between Cuba and the outside world.

In 1966, Thomas Wenski was an altar server at the funeral for the University of Texas tower shooter. Decades later, Wenski, now an archbishop, presided at the funeral mass of a Parkland shooting victim.

Washington -- Calling the future of the planet "an ethical problem," Mauricio López Oropeza, executive secretary of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, made clear that the church's social teaching is very clear on the imperative to care for the earth.

WASHINGTON -- Immigration was a key theme of the first day of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, which brought together more than 500 Catholics who work in social justice ministries. The event runs from Saturday Feb. 4 through Tuesday, Feb. 6, and concludes with an advocacy visit to Capitol Hill.

Families who have lost fathers, brothers, husbands in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte​'s drug war killings share stories with and are supported by Catholic sisters, priests who say that this "war" is really one against the poor.