I'm worried about the future my nephews will experience. But lots of religious sisters are empowering young people like them and showing them God's love, so they can face the challenges ahead.
My calling as a Chadian Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus impels me to embrace the challenge of being a Christian prophet — proclaiming God's message of love and inclusion, especially during times of conflict.
I do not like crowds, so I was very surprised to find myself with over a million people at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, at a vocation fair representing the Congregation of Notre Dame de Montreal.
Pope Francis challenges all people of good faith, deeply religious, Christian or Catholic, to be multi-issue advocates, supporting political positions that foster the common good and address the needs of the many over the wants of the few.
The courage of the young people, their yearning for Christ, and their hunger for communication and interaction with others filled me with admiration. When I looked around, I saw young people kneeling, silent young people — one thought, one prayer.
Horizons - I've been reflecting on the interplay between federal and local governments. In many ways, it resembles the interplay between solidarity and subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching.
In a time when Russia seeks to create divisions, we at the Institute of Theological Sciences of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in Ukraine decided to organize joint retreats for sisters of both Eastern and Western rites.
Kenyan freedom fighters gave their all for a freedom that today is so widely abused in the country. I wonder — why is it that beneficiaries cannot sustain the vision that was once dear and clear to the visionary?
All of us need "grief time," "breathing time" or "retreat time" after this bucketful of losses because each loss affects us physically, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.
Horizons - I am surprised by the encounter whenever I risk inviting and truly seeing the other. Doing this is one more way to welcome Jesus into my life.
In April, I moved to the Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho. Here at the center, Benedictines are mapping out a future quite singular in nature.
Considering the span of all time, we did not arrive on on Earth that long ago. It took us a while to put our home in danger. Healing won't take place in a flash. But with each new generation there is hope, not despair.
It's not just the changing seasons that bring transitions. All of us face transitions on a regular basis. Growth requires change. It's those in-between times, transition times, growth times, that are bothering me right now.
At a Marianist Family program in Kenya, we are growing in our understanding of the values, customs and points of view shaped by the contexts from which people come. This has truly been a gift. It has also been work.
"The bride of Christ" was one of the titles given by early Christian church fathers to the church itself and virgin martyrs. Yet these titles had various theological underpinnings and nuances. Were they always sound and healthy?
Nicole Bernardi-Reis speaks to GSR about the award-winning documentary she co-directed, "With This Light," which chronicles the extraordinary life of Honduran Sr. María Rosa Legoll of the School Sisters of St. Francis.
Despite the assumption that every church music director knows how to direct a hand bell choir, I have evidence that this is erroneous, and I am living to tell the tale.