Chris Herlinger

The opera depicts the spiritual journey of Sister of St. Joseph Helen Prejean as she navigates the pain and redemption of death row ministry. 

A sister who lives in the West Bank told GSR that she and other sisters are keenly aware of the suffering that has befallen both Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of the Hamas attacks. 

With a busy week of marches, workshops and a U.N. summit behind them, sisters and other Catholics say they must continue and expand their work to increase public pressure for change on climate action. 

La violencia, la pobreza y la inestabilidad política han sumido a Haití en una crisis humanitaria y de desgobierno sin precedentes tras el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse el 7 de julio de 2021. ¿Qué esperanza hay para su futuro? En reportaje de Chris Herlinger para la serie Esperanza en Medio del Caos: Hermanas en Zonas de Conflicto de GSR se describe un sombrío panorama para este país que lucha por sostenerse en medio de la dominación de pandillas que algunos observadores comparan con el terrorismo. Pese a la dinámica violenta, las religiosas, laicos, sacerdotes y trabajadores humanitarios mantienen su compromiso con la defensa de los derechos humanos y la promoción de la paz. 

Afghan and Ukrainian refugees find a home with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, New York, bringing "new life to these old walls."

¿Qué hacen las organizaciones religiosas y humanitarias en Haití ante la grave situación de inseguridad y violencia que azota al país? A pesar de los abrumadores desafíos, los ministerios y programas no se rinden ante la adversidad. Desde la ayuda económica esencial para las familias y el apoyo con comidas calientes a estudiantes hambrientos, hasta el entrenamiento a mujeres para garantizar agua potable, estas organizaciones lideradas por valientes religiosas locales entregan un rayo de luz en medio de la oscuridad. Acompáñanos a dar un vistazo a su admirable trabajo y testimonio de resiliencia a través de este reportaje preparado por Chris Herlinger y Gail DeGeorge para la serie Esperanza en Medio del Caos: Hermanas en Zonas de Conflicto de GSR. 

Church-based ministries and humanitarian programs in Haiti continue their work despite the considerable and daunting challenges.

The security and social situation in Haiti is as grave as it has ever been, say sisters, priests and humanitarian workers, who paint a grim picture of a country struggling amid gang domination that observers compare to terrorism.

Book review: Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers presents readers with translated excerpts from journals penned principally by seven Dutch diarists, tracking their lives as the five-year German occupation unfolded. 

Sr. Lydia Timkova has committed to regular trips across Ukraine to shepherd food and medical supplies to civilians living near the Russian front. Twice in 2023, Timkova has journeyed to where battles are raging.

While visiting the memorial museum at Theresienstadt, I stood in front of a wall bearing names of child victims who were deported from the ghetto to death camps. There, I saw the name Jiří Herlinger. He was 8 years old.

Water is connected to hope, peace and unity, say attendees of the 2023 U.N. conference, which brought together governments, businesses, scientists, environmentalists and civil society groups like sister congregations.

Book review: How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? These questions hover over Eliot After The Waste Land, a new biography of poet T.S. Eliot.

Four refugee women from different parts of Ukraine thrown together by the sad fate of war say they are ending a turbulent year safe, secure and calm — though still uneasily in exile. They spoke to NCR in Warsaw.

Two Catholic scholars who study nuclear arms, peace and disarmament issues say U.S.-Russia tensions over the war in Ukraine should not deter either country from "lowering temperatures" over the use of nuclear arms.

Friends in Solidarity, the U.S. partner to the ministry Solidarity with South Sudan, has announced the launch of a legacy fund thanks to a major gift from the Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters.

Movie review: From its first moments, "The Territory" places the viewer in a new kind of war — the war for the future of the Amazon Basin, and what it portends for Indigenous Brazilians, Brazil and even the planet.

Book review: As bad as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was, the real shame was the conduct of the war itself, a fact supported by Craig Whitlock's bestselling The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.

Book review: Elizabeth Becker's new book is an accomplished and deeply reported account of three female journalists who were pioneers at a time when war reporting was very much a male domain.

Perspective: My Good Friday experience came early this year. I can pinpoint it to the day in early March when, during an assignment covering the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau.