Being open about my journey as a recovering alcoholic has given hope and freedom to others. I believe that God uses our weaknesses to strengthen others.
Global Water Dance events are calling attention to the water issues that Pope Francis articulates in Laudato Si'. Will you join the dance? Will you passionately dance with brothers and sisters around the globe?
Having lost my parents at a young age has shaped my desire to help others, regardless of their religious beliefs or backgrounds, in their pursuit of a God-centered and hopeful family life.
Our foundress, Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, teaches us — religious, lay people and those that will be religious — that the grace of God is forever with us in everything.
A love for reading about the saints led to an appreciation that St. Augustine's life provides a clear example of how God the Father is kind and gentle.
Horizons - Yes, young people leave the church, and "nones" seem to be increasing, but I've seen a counternarrative firsthand. During World Youth Day, some 1.5 million young people around me witnessed a faith that isn't dead.
Young people should not give up. Blanca Alicia Sánchez Olvera, sister of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity in Mexico City, explains why in her column for GSR. She leads a support network for young people that includes religious and laypeople.
In a country where nonviolence and truth were the values of Gandhi — the father of our nation — today, violence and lies are being perpetuated for the need to remain in power. This new concept of India has to change.
I plead with Christ. "Once you raised a little girl from the dead. Now I beg you to raise my brother Joseph from near death." I keep begging, birds keep singing, my brother keeps sinking. Keep, keep my brother alive, I pray.
Sometimes we wonder if it is worth living religious life. For those who feel religious life is a burden, recollect the moments when you experienced love and happiness from God. Think of people as our co-pilgrims in mission.
For such a scale of heinous violence as we've seen in Manipur, India — especially the recent brutal attack on two women — even one day of silence on the part of the government is too long.
Little did I know that when Sr. Monica Jaciuk came from Argentina in 2003 to minister in our Order of St. Basil the Great province in Philadelphia, she would become a close friend and partner in many of our projects.
I met Penina 15 years ago, when I volunteered as a family mentor for Catholic Charities Refugee Services. Now she is dead, and I wish I could tell her: Thank you, my friend, for your grace, beauty, dignity and affection.
If someone could design a working bicycle with square wheels, then how about trying to "reshape" our thinking about the future of consecrated life itself?
Horizons - The backbone of India is its farmers. What greater mission and evangelization can sisters have other than strengthening and supporting the backbone of society?
Truly we are standing on the shoulders of visionary women. It is time for us to do what is ours to do to bring forward their dreams with our own for the common good.
Contemplate This - Rethinking what we assume about our differences as a nation and what behaviors keep us from engaging in dialogue with those who think differently is critical to our future as the United States.