Q&As

Sr. Teagon Andre Maria had already earned a nursing degree before she finally answered the call to religious life, joining the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and taking first vows in June. 

GSR talks to Sr. Jeana Visel, a Sister of St. Benedict at the Monastery Immaculate Conception, about her ministry as an iconographer who teaches about icons at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana.

Salvatorian Sr. Hildegard Enzenhofer worked as administrator of Beit Emmaus Home for the elderly and disabled in the Palestinian village of Qubeibeh, nestled between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank. 

Recluse Sr. Ginette Généreux tells GSR about her part in the Montreal Archdiocese's "The Hidden Good in the City" ("Le Bien Caché dans la Cité") documentary series, and her experience with the youth behind the camera. 

Sr. Esther Ezedinachi, of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus, supports victims of violence in Nigeria. 
 

Sr. Stella Akello has been working with young adult refugees in Chicago for the past eight years. She's now a house mother to the dozen or so 18- to 25-year-old women at Chicago's Bethany House of Hospitality. 

On Jan. 27, Sr. Christine Mynsong was elected superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians. With more than 1,500 members, it is one of the fastest-growing women's congregations in India.

"My first appointment was in a conflict area, so you could say my religious journey was among war victims on the battlefield. I lived my religious life in the war zones for 26 years and even after the war."