Beverly Anne LoGrasso

Beverly Anne LoGrasso, a member of the Cleveland Ursuline Sisters since 1965, has served in education, administration and prison ministry to women. An article on her experience in prison ministry was published in the National Catholic Reporter.

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A mourner stops to pay his respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School June 9 in Uvalde, Texas. The memorial was created to honor the two teachers and 19 students killed in a mass shooting at the school on May 24. (AP/Eric Gay, File)

Confront gun violence for the sake of our children, the Holy Innocents

On the feast of the Holy Innocents, I think of the faces of the children killed in Uvalde, Texas. Earlier this year, their photos were an unrelenting, "in your face" testament to the plague of gun violence in the U.S.

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Travel outside our comfort zone opens our eyes that we might see

Leave the freeway and drive through urban neighborhoods as a spiritual traveler. That allows you to see more clearly the stark, but hidden realities, of poverty and racism that remain out of sight and out of mind when we speed along, avoiding city driving.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., was dedicated Aug. 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, though the ceremony was postponed until Oct. 16 due to Hurricane Irene.

Seeing rightly: my moral education on racism

As a graduate of 16 years of Catholic education, I was very clearly schooled in the Catholic moral code of right and wrong. But I keep finding that I still have a lot to learn.

Seeds of hope in unexpected places

Healing through demolition, puzzles

A response from a Vatican II generation sister