"The call from God is often realized after I start. After I move into something new, I tend to look around and see that I have stumbled onto something good, into a plan beyond my limited vision. Often, God just helps us to make one step at a time. Calls are as nudges to keep moving forward."

See for Yourself - I talked with my immigrant friend from Switzerland, who shared a funny story about when relatives came to visit in Ohio.

Horizons - For over a thousand years, millions of pilgrims have walked across Spain to the Catedral de Santiago (Cathedral of St. James). During Holy Week, I will become one of those pilgrims.

GSR Today - What good does the United Nations do? Even those who admire the U.N. and advocate for its work — like the many Catholic sisters at the U.N. — ask the question.

"VanGogh’s 'Starry Starry Night' gives way to starry starry day as daffodils proclaim springtime!"

"The focus of our environmental activism should be for the defense of human rights — because the rights to land and to water, those are fundamental rights," says Sr. Edia López. "People need to turn around and see the cost of maintaining this system."

Reflections from Pope Francis' 2017 World Day of Peace message, "Nonviolence: a Style of Politics of Peace," continue to unfold as the year rolls out new opportunities and challenges. These different encounters invite each person to actively seek to engage in peacemaking through nonviolence at the grassroots.

At the latest gathering of the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, men and women religious worked on their global plan, outlining mission and ministry and finding ways to stay connected about their work and invigorated about their charisms.

Death is difficult, no matter your culture or religion, but the difference between us was faith. Their faith was carrying them through the agony, and I was stuck in it, unable to rely on anything besides myself.

Mary-Cabrini Durkin was an Ursuline Sister of Cincinnati for 41 years and an educator and is now part of the secular institute of the Company of St. Ursula, USA. Worldwide, the Company of St. Ursula has 800 members, who carry their relationship with Christ into the world in their particular country, culture and occupation.