The wide range of reactions to the American flag through painting, photography, print, video and mixed media make the 74-piece exhibit at Fairfield University as diverse as the country itself.
With decades of experience protesting war and nuclear weapons, Catholic sisters in peace activism said they see an ally in Pope Leo XIV, just a year into his papacy.
A year into Leo XIV's papacy, Catholic sisters around the world are celebrating how the first U.S.-born pope is continuing to focus on issues near and dear to them.
At the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, Catholic sisters and advocates pointed to community-based solutions and women's leadership as essential to advancing justice and ending gender-based violence.
In a Philadelphia suburb, Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great walk beside wounded veterans of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine, offering food, prayer and solidarity as the war enters its fifth year.
The Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit on the island of Flores cofounded a shelter to provide women with refuge, counseling and legal support in a patriarchal society.
For GSR correspondent Chris Herlinger, traveling outside the U.S. during these past weeks of highly charged turmoil was strange. But the work of sisters in Indonesia and Minnesota gave him hope.
To Ahmad Muna, co-owner of The Educational Bookshop, Francis' near daily phone calls to a Catholic Church in Gaza in the last year of his life proved the pope was a steadfast believer in human dignity.
Following two years of absence, public Christmas festivities, like holiday lights in Bethlehem and other locales, are returning. Also making an appearance, say some observers, are dribbles of visitors to the Holy Land.
For Palestinians living in the West Bank the occupation is a source of continued anger that has not stopped them from hoping and working for a better future.
We are living in an authoritarian epoch; not only in the United States, but globally. What books and films can offer context, instruction and even hope during this trying moment?
We are living in an authoritarian epoch; not only in the United States, but globally. What books and films can offer context, instruction and even hope during this trying moment?
