Copy Desk Daily, Feb. 7, 2019

Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily provides insight on recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.

We've received a lot of positive feedback about Soli Salgado's "Nuns and Nones" story from Monday. Part 2 looks at howthe union of these two groups — Catholic sisters and millennials in the U.S. — may answer who could inherit the charisms that animate religious life today. The article is full of encouraging news for the church!

Read: Nuns and Nones: A modern religious community

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Columnist Amy Morris-Young muses on what aging and, especially as a woman, going with an "aging" hair color, signifies.

Read: The life-changing magic of letting your hair go white

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Did you watch the U.S. president's State of the Union Address? "We are creating a crisis," says Sr. Norma Pimentel of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.

Read: Moving 'Beyond the Wall': Immigration panel talks moral, practical solutions

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Related ... over the past two years, the nation's refugee resettlement system has been slowly dismantled.

Read: Two years after Trump's travel ban, faith-based refugee groups struggle

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GSR has a partnership with Catholic Volunteer Network to share blogs from young people serving around the world. These are inspirational and great to share.

Read: I'm learning how to recognize God in the office work

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