A Nun's Life Ministry - The new episode series focuses on social issues being addressed by Catholic sisters, such as human trafficking, homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, climate and education.
Horizons - The demands for unity we keep hearing, especially from the perpetrators of violence, fall short for me. I have struggled with imagining reconciliation, a value and a practice that I espouse in most of my other work.
With our school shuttered on March 16, 2020, my school administrative team has worked hard ever since to develop reopening plans for our students and staff. Teaching this way is definitely harder.
Lockdown helped me discover the growth of "other-centeredness" in most of the people as a whole. And as nature is cleansed, our life, too, began to return to a gentle, nurturing atmosphere.
As we work against structures and cultural texts that dehumanize women, we must rethink the various methods of child rearing and reset the chauvinist mindset acquired from a tender age.
Friends for Street Children serves children in Vietnam who are homeless or in need. The program welcomes volunteers, and two volunteers from outside Vietnam deserve special recognition.
Horizons - Because of the proximity of Dad's birthday to the quadrennial event of U.S. presidental elections, I have watched many inaugurations in the company of my father. Because of the pandemic, we couldn't do that together this year.
I kept informed about social justice issues. I wrote to elected officials, but I never stood out publicly with a sign. Then I did, to keep the message of racial injustice in front of all of us.
Transgender people take life-changing risks to honor their body-soul personhood. When they are not treated with respect when seeking medical care, their whole person is wounded and traumatized.
Contemplate This - There has to be a national effort to begin to repair the great divide among us. That effort has to seep down into each of our families and local communities. And it has to start with each one of us.
Horizons - On the day after the chaos at the Capitol, I was not in the mood to try to find hope. I was standing in my classroom trying to get it together, to welcome the teens about to walk in the door.
As a graduate of 16 years of Catholic education, I was very clearly schooled in the Catholic moral code of right and wrong. But I keep finding that I still have a lot to learn.
Crisis has not hindered the church from finding ways to nourish our faith. Virtual gatherings for worship and prayer have been real experiences of connection for people who cannot leave their homes.
Lisa Montgomery is set to be executed. She killed Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, and took Stinnett's baby. Montgomery may deserve to die. But we don't have the right to execute her.
Perhaps a way back to unity is for each of us to reflect on all the hopes God has for our world and the delight God has when any one of us tries to make those hopes real.
Horizons - A tyrant saw a threat to his power. Filled with fear, he brought fright to the whole country. He stoked fear and incited violence. The king could not stand the truth and so he sought to rout it out.
How much we missed Mother Nature these past months, when most of us couldn't go out of our flats except for emergencies. Perhaps — now that we have missed her so much — we'll treat her in a loving and gentle way.
We are relational beings. With this pandemic, we may face physical distancing and movement restrictions, but those will never hinder us from connecting and nurturing our relationships with God and fellow human beings.
The Bishop Asili Counseling, Rehabilitation and Community Centre in Lira, Uganda, takes on such problems as child abuse and domestic violence during this critical moment of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
As a Christmastime gift, I thought I would share an experience that has been God's gift to me. I believe it is not mine to keep but to pass on to you. I call this story "God's smile."
