January 26, 2017

  • A worker stands next to a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in 2016 at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. President Donald Trump enacted two executive memorandums Jan. 25 to deal with security, including one that calls for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

"It is precisely because the prophet is addressing the actual situation, publicly lamenting current oppression as contrary to God's will, and energizing real people to imagine and begin to strive for an alternate future, that the prophet is often perceived as dangerous to the status quo."

- Sr. Sandra Schneiders, from Tasks of those who choose the prophetic life style, published on NCRonline.org and recast by Global Sisters Report

Read about her life's work and an exhibit that illuminates it with the St. John's Gospel at Santa Clara University.