Can you build a house with 1,000 rupees at a time? Last Christmas we mobilized people to join together and begin construction of a house for a daily laborer. Many people contributed; by May, the house was a reality.
Teaching at a medium security prison has led to my own cannonball moment. As I listened to the prisoners' cannonball moments, I was exposed to such trauma, such chaos. I heard how we as a society have failed these men.
Horizons - Telling the truth and sharing sacred stories is the only way we can start to repair and redress the pain caused by slavery, and our country's inability to truly repent for systemic racism. Where do we begin?
For Mother Thecla Merlo, the Daughters of St. Paul's first mother general, taking up new communication technologies was part of her dream project to spend all her energy on whatever was good for the spread of the Gospel.
A religious may have to live various roles in her lifetime — in her own country or foreign countries — to fulfil God's plan. But if we take the credit, we miss the point that God is the author of our lives.
I have learned many things during these years, but one is very important: to understand that I do not understand, or to know that I do not know, and this applies to all people, but especially to our Indigenous people.
Horizons - The year after I graduated, I completed a year of service. I worked in a Catholic grade school in Uvalde, Texas, a place I could never forget. Unfortunately, after last month, no one will ever forget Uvalde.
Despite mixed reviews, "The Help" is even more relevant today than 10 years ago. When seen with the eyes of faith, it is a parable: a story of the Eucharist hidden in the bread and wine of friendship and hospitality.
If humans, as limited as we are, can go to the extent of taking addicted and reckless sons to rehabilitation, in an attempt to change them, what about God our Father — the Creator of us all?
Contemplate This - If those of us who are aging can resist surrendering to weariness and continue to fan our passion for justice, perhaps those younger will experience a renewed energy and courage.
My grandma was almost full of grace. But somewhere inside of her was a pocket of sadness. I rarely saw it but it was always there. What I knew and loved was her grace. She never lost her sadness but grace prevailed.
Synodality gives voice to the unheard and to the periphery. Discussion of abuse and misuse of power in religious communities comes amid these churchwide reflections.
Started by the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth in 1986, the Kiran Niketan Social Centre is a ray of light to marginalized and deprived migrant women in three slum areas in Sancoale, Goa, India.
We draw our life-sap through the roots of our faith in Jesus Christ. Will the church realize its beginnings with greater understanding and become a protagonist and witness of women's liberation?
As I prepared for Pentecost, I asked: How is the Holy Spirit enlightening, guiding and strengthening me to live a Christian life of love and unity when I feel so many forces pulling me away from doing just that?
Not one person has escaped the effects of COVID. The isolation, fear, lack of support as many were in survival mode dealing with the unknown, has left all broken, vulnerable, searching.
It is our embrace of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that cultivates a hunger for justice and love of God. These gifts are meant to be put into action, used in union, and refined and reimagined each new day.
The importance of Pentecost can never be underestimated, but the manner in which it can be celebrated can suggest that the Holy Spirit was absent prior to that wonderful day. Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Herstory" is mostly unwritten, distorted or erased by men from Scripture as well as tradition. But I firmly believe that the early church was a feminist movement, although its mission was not limited to feminism.
I took my perpetual vows in 1968. My adventures as a sister took me from Brooklyn to the Vatican and places between. The rewards have been beyond anything I could have ever imagined.
