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Sisters living in Croatia and neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina describe fallout from the wars of 30 years ago and about their current ministries that are helping to heal the wounds of lands once riven by conflict.
Sr. Margaret Farrell addresses the continued issue of homelessness and the need for affordable housing a situation that remains critical in Los Angeles and other large American cities.
Among the continued challenges are declining access for the economically poor to food, rising gender inequities and illiteracy, and increasing government restrictions on religious freedoms.
"I won't use the term success, but it has been fruitful. It's a new state in the experience of synodality," says one sister who was a voting member at the first session of the Vatican's multiyear synod.