Several Sisters of Divine Providence are working to sustain impoverished ethnic villagers in the Binh Phuoc Province, bordering Cambodia. They have been working with Stieng ethnic villagers in An Khuong Parish since last August when they built a convent. The parish has 700 Catholics among the population of about 7,000. Many villagers live on incomes of $31-44 per month and suffer from starvation, so the nuns cooperate with a group of local Catholic women and Fr. Joseph Nguyen Minh Chanh to give pastoral care to parishioners and help feed ethnic villagers.

"Ecology tells us we are part of the web of life, while computer technology promises to liberate humans from the burden of earthly life, orienting us toward a new artificial cyber world. Ecology speaks to us of our deep interrelatedness within nature, and technology lures us to become something other than nature; to transcend the limits of nature."

Immigrants and their advocates are in a rush to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy as 10 state lawmakers are threatening to amend a lawsuit to attack the program as unconstitutional.

As religious life evolves, so does the nature of charism. A charism is only as sustainable as the needs it serves and the response of individuals to the call to live it out. Today, that response and the needs served by a charism are in constant need of reconsideration.

See For Yourself: "Through the picture window I could clearly see the stranded little bird. In my best Franciscan conjurings, I talked to the bird and said that I was on my way."

"Let us be aware of the culture and needs of others lest we fence in their liberty in the mold of our freedom."

The combined hard work of a beloved priest and the Servite Sisters in Kyauktan, Myanmar, keep operations running at St. Mary's Home, a successful, multifaceted farm that also supports and shelters 120 girls. The Servite Sisters arrived in Myanmar from India in 1924 and established a community in Kyauktan, which like the rest of the country, was mostly Buddhist and Hindu with a small Catholic population.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Sr. Cecilia Marie Fausto talks about the begging tradition of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Sr. Gerardine Mueller of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey, can't do many of the things she used to. But that doesn't get her down. She is still able to make art and she still fulfills a dream she had since she was 3 years old: being a nun.

"Networking is one of the best ways to promote vocations and other activities in the church. It makes people work together to seek the common goal. We need to work, pray and grow together."