UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
NCR Staff | Aug. 22, 2013
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.3 million over three years that will allow the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co. to embark on a groundbreaking project to give greater voice to countless Catholic sisters around the globe. With the use of the Hilton Foundation grant, NCR plans to build a network of editors and reporters not only to write about women religious, but to help them develop their own communication skills by working with them as columnists who report their own missions and challenges.
“We’ve been standing with sisters from the beginning, and I consider the grant encouragement to go on telling their stories,” said NCR Board Chair Annette E. Lomont.
“The work of these women religious is one of the least-told stories in the church,” NCR Publisher Tom Fox said Thursday. “It’s really an exciting challenge to bring these stories and voices to greater awareness. It also recognizes the changing nature of our global church.”
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