Sister Elizabeth Carrillo Pursues Degree in Religion and the Environment

by Sister Jennifer Halling, OSB Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica Sister Elizabeth Carrillo has always had a strong connection with the natural world, where she has a sense of something “greater and other and good.” She’s been collecting leaves and bugs since she was a toddler and says, “Being outdoors was always where I …

An Interview with Sister Maureen Farrar, ASC

Adorers of the Blood of Christ by Jeff Stahlhut In late July, Pope Francis apologized to the Native People during a visit to Canada, calling the forced cultural assimilation of the past a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.” “I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again …

Arriving with Joy and Song

Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas It all began in 2018 with a possibly suspicious email, the kind you might delete without a second look. Four years later, it concluded with the arrival in Concordia of three Dominican Sisters from Vietnam. The story from that beginning to its end features bureaucracy, the pandemic, persistence and …

Call for Medicaid Expansion

On behalf of the Catholic Sisters of Kansas, NETWORK invites you to sign-on to a letter addressed to Governor Laura Kelly, Senator Ty Masterson, President of the Senate, and Representative Daniel Hawkins, Speaker of the House, calling on them to expand Medicaid in Kansas. As people dedicated to living the gospel, we believe it is …