UNITED STATES
The Catholic Sun
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) — The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co. has received a $2.3 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to be given over a three-year period, which will allow NCR to pursue “a groundbreaking project to give greater voice to countless of Catholic sisters around the globe,” the company said in an Aug. 22 announcement.
“We’ve been standing with sisters from the beginning, and I consider the grant encouragement to go on telling their stories,” said Annette E. Lomont, chair of NCR’s board of directors.
NCR said it will use the Hilton Foundation grant to build a network of editors and reporters to not only write about women religious, but also help them develop their own communication skills by working with them as columnists who report their own missions and challenges.
“The work of these women religious is one of the least-told stories in the church,” NCR Publisher Tom Fox said Aug. 22. “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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