Horizons - If you've ever been tasked with cleaning out a family home after the passing of the last of a family's older generation, you have an inkling of the difficult decisions confronting religious communities today.
Medical Mission Sisters provide a variety of programs to educate and support girls and boys in India. Some conditions have improved, but there is a long way to go – especially for young girls to feel secure and safe.
How long must people of color deal with racism and rejection in North America? Those of us who live in daily racial uncertainty must believe that the arc of God's goodness will bend toward fairness, honesty, righteousness and integrity.
Memories of growing up in Romania's underground church: no Bible, priests harassed, prayers in secret, knots on apron strings or beans in pockets instead of rosaries.
Should we be shocked about Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine, just another war on a long list of violence and wars around the world? That is exactly why we should be shocked.
One Benedictine Oblate with a camera captures images of her community members' efforts to live the balance St. Benedict outlined more than 1,500 years ago.
The acquittal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal was disappointing to many of us. I feel the need for speaking up in defense of our sisters, and sounding a wake-up call for us as women religious.
I am based in Croatia now, but all my thoughts and prayers are focused on my native Ukraine, where my family lives, as well as a third of the sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great to which I belong.
Contemplate This - As we enter the Lenten season, I felt that a renewed contemplative practice might be just what is needed. Contemplation helps us to "see" in new ways, inviting us to respond out of love and not fear.
A good way to observe Lent this year is for all of us as individually and as a church to repent for our collective sinfulness — historical, present-day, systemic, embedded.
I am proud that the Sisters of St. Basil the Great are international and that we have an expanded worldview, which I've experienced in Croatia, Italy, Greece, and a Russian-speaking city in Ukraine.
To see as God sees is to hope. How God sees us is the cord that binds us into a humanity that struggles to hope, to see the good in ourselves and in each other. I hope. What's your superpower?
At the mere two inches of snow, I burst into tears and wondered, What the heck was I crying for? My tears had nothing to do with the broken promise of a snowstorm. Instead, for the first time, I cried for COVID-19.
My happiness does not depend on what I possess — as I used to think — and that happiness never ends. Simplicity is bliss. Poverty is necessary to live our vocation meaningfully and authentically.
After hundreds of years Basilian Sisters remain united by values including faith, fidelity, love, unity, openness, trust, prayer, spiritual life and responsibility.
Though founded three-quarters of a century apart, on opposite sides of the world, our two congregations were both modeled on the good Samaritan. And a visit to Uganda revealed how we are one in so many ways.
Many people find it difficult to see and accept the reality of trafficking. The denial of what is right in front of them makes them more vulnerable to becoming victims themselves.
Speaking up against human trafficking is a risk. I believe we are God's messengers to speak for and rescue the victims. Are we ready for combat? We have heard, we have seen; we will act and react.
