by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Contributor
In the gritty depths of the strip-mining South and in a university town in the Midwest, two Catholic sisters are working to create a future in which opioid addicts have options beyond the next fix. They don't know each other — but, from the way their friends and coworkers describe them, they share one strikingly similar trait: They don't give up easy.
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether their religious freedom rights were violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline through its land.
Sidnee Grubb is a freelance writer and publishing manager at Microcosm Publishing in Portland, Oregon. She attended Gonzaga University, where she discovered her passion for storytelling within the Catholic-Jesuit community. Her email address is lenoragrubb@gmail.com, and her website is lenoragrubb.wordpress.com.
by Virginia Herbers
Horizons - One Saturday a few years ago, I missed the convent carpool to Mass and opted to go to a funeral Mass at a neighboring parish. Little did I know that God had a message for me there that would last a lifetime.
Nuns on the Bus Blog - "We may be a quiet bunch, but know that we're soaking it in." The Nuns on the Bus make their way across the Midwest and in the process meet only a cardboard cutout of an Iowa congressman.
by Jan Cebula
Nuns on the Bus Blog - "The kids need us. The community needs us." That's what we all need to be about, says Sr. Jan Cebula as she reports from Des Moines, Iowa.
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, we talk about the power of education to liberate and heal.
For more than three decades, the subterranean level of Trinity United Methodist Church in Berkeley, California, is the place the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant has called home. Its simple red door at the bottom of a stairway has been the gateway to safe and secure passage into the United States for thousands of immigrants and refugees. Despite its rundown environs, Franciscan Sr. Maureen Duignan, the organization's executive director, is deeply worried the program may soon lose this space.
Rome - Sr. Sally Hodgdon said there are two nonordained religious brothers serving as full voting members of the Vatican's synod on young people, while seven sisters have nonvoting roles. "That should change."
Nuns on the Bus Blog - Sr. Ilaria Buonriposi reports from the Nuns on the Bus's visit to the office of Rep. Don Bacon and rally in Omaha, Nebraska.
