Dan Stockman is national correspondent for Global Sisters Report. He was a reporter at daily newspapers in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana for nearly two decades before joining GSR in 2014.
Sharing her dad's passion for the Jesus of the Scriptures, Sr. Maureen Geary was led to the Grand Rapids Dominicans in 1987. On Friday, she'll begin her year as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
It will take generations to find healing from the boarding school system, but the process must start with restoration, said Samuel Torres of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.
Bishop Mark Seitz and others call out Trump's Catholic chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, asking him to shield the immigration policy protecting young people brought to the U.S. as children.