Carole Sargent

Carole Sargent

Carole Sargent writes about Roman Catholic sisters, especially those active in nuclear disarmament, and she is an Associate of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ). She is the author of Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press), which the National Catholic Reporter reviewed in September 2022, and two books for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. With Jesuit Fr. Drew Christiansen, she co-edited the award-winning A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (2020) and Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), both from Georgetown University Press. Since 1997, she has worked at Georgetown University, where she guides faculty to research publication.

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Religious of the Sacred Heart Sr. Mary Frohlich, center, is seen at Hirtle's Beach, Nova Scotia. She is with Sr. Diane Roche, left, and Sr. Jane O'Shaughnessy. Frolich is a hiking retreat leader and certified as a forest therapy guide. (Ellyn Stewart)

Q&A with Sr. Mary Frohlich, retreat leader and forest therapy guide

Beyond her identity as a scholar and author, and foremost in her spiritual life, Sr. Mary Frohlich immerses herself in nature. She is a skilled hiking retreat leader, and certified as a forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy.

Visitation Sr. Marie Louise Kirkland holds the pigskin with Washington Redskins player Gus Frerotte on her 97th birthday in 1996. Others are (from left) Sr. Mada-anne Gell, Sr. Philomena Tisinger, Sr. Mary Berchmans Hannan and Sr. Anne Marie Di Menno.

Why notable Catholic sisters need Wikipedia pages, and how to create them

Carole Sargent "wanted to see sisters' lives in places where everyone might find them." So she puts Catholic sisters' biographies on Wikipedia and invites sisters and friends of sisters to join the effort. 

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and the International Union of Superiors General facilitate a monthly exchange of data for elder care. Key participants include, from left: Sr. Candida Mukundi of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi; Sr. Bibiana Ngundo of the Little Sisters of St. Francis; Brenda Hernandez of the Daughters of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe; and Fr. Luis Falcó of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit. (Courtesy of CARA)

Catholic sisters connect across continents to improve care for older members

As the conversation about ill and aging members of women's religious communities continues worldwide, a monthly information exchange between Catholic sisters in Nairobi and Mexico City is making a tremendous difference.

Dominican Sr. Jeanne Clark holds the photo she carried when she was charged with "obstructing a lawfully operated train" (Courtesy of Elizabeth Keihm)

Q & A with Sr. Jeanne Clark, peace activist who went to jail for nonviolent resistance

Sr. Jeanne Clark is a peace activist, the founder of Homecoming Farm and was a Pax Christi Long Island Peacemaker of the Year.

Mother Anne Francis Ng'ang'a (Courtesy of Georgetown Visitation Monastery)

Q & A with Mother Anne Francis Ng'ang'a, Visitation Sisters' first African superior

In August, Sr. Anne Francis Ng'ang'a was elected superior of Georgetown Visitation Monastery, next to Georgetown University. Ng'ang'a talks to GSR about her path from Kenya to D.C., and her life in the Salesian way.