Global Sisters Report
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Frederick Douglass’ Gift, A Reflection by Sister Mary Navarre
February 7, 2022
In his autobiography, Frederick Douglass wrote about how he learned to read. His ingenuity, drive and resourcefulness inspire me to this day. As a young child, Douglass (1818-1895) overheard his enslaver chastise his own wife for teaching Douglass to read. He sternly scolded her: “It is unlawful and unsafe to teach a slave to read […]
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O Wisdom: Seek Wisdom, Look Around See it Everywhere
December 17, 2021
Seek wisdom: Look around, see it everywhere Oh! Wisdom, how we need you now more than ever A reading from the Book of Proverbs 8:1-12: Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice? On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand; by the gates at the […]
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Sisters produce a 2020 voting guide; 11 justice-and-peace groups urge reflection
September 17, 2020
Global Sisters Report’s Soli Salgado interviewed Brigid Clingman, OP, about the new 2020 voting guide for an article published September 10, 2020. An excerpt from that article appears below along with a link to the full article in Global Sisters Report. The Reflective Voting Guide that 11 congregational justice and peace promoters created and circulated […]
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Training Men and Women Religious in Formation and Interculturality at Catholic Theological Union
November 26, 2019
Lucianne Siers, OP, is director of the Institute of Religious Formation at Catholic Theological Union. She facilites a program to train men and women who lead formation programs in their communities. Georgia Perry with Global Sisters Report interviewed Siers about the program she developed. In your program, in addition to promoting diversity, you also make […]
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Faith Leaders Trek to Honduras
April 19, 2019
Editor’s note: From March 18 to 25, an interfaith group of about 75 people, including two dozen women religious, traveled to Honduras in a “reverse caravan” to see for themselves why tens of thousands of people have fled for their lives. Over the coming weeks, Global Sisters Report will feature columns from sisters who were part […]
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Shepherding Feminist Biblical Interpretation, An Update with Barbara Reid, OP
December 14, 2017
In November 2015, Grand Rapids Dominican Sr. Barbara Reid launched the Wisdom Commentary series, a groundbreaking project offering feminist interpretation for every book of the Bible. There are now 13 volumes out, and two of them have won Catholic Press Association awards. People are starting to know about the series now, and there’s an interest […]