"Who is knocking on our door in our interdependent globalized world this Advent season? Who are we willing to let in, to welcome? On whose door are we knocking to be let in to their world?"

Advocates and attorneys for undocumented immigrants aren't waiting until Inauguration Day to assist the millions of people who find their status in even greater jeopardy given the campaign rhetoric by President-elect Donald Trump.

The past month has been a time of questions. In my ministry as a community organizer, I meet daily with folks who are asking questions about how the recent election will impact them: "Will my family be separated? How can our church provide a safe place for our people? How can my children feel safe in their black bodies?"

'Dreamers' — undocumented immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — hope for the best, prepare for the worst under new U.S. administration's immigration policy.

"As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger. "

From A Nun's Life podcasts - If I'm afraid of worldly things, does that mean I should be a nun? In this Random Nun Clip, a listener asks if her fear of worldly things should determine the decisions she makes about her life.

Last month, FutureChurch launched Catholic Women Preach, a project aimed at highlighting the voices of Catholic women preachers around the world. Dominican Sr. Jamie Phelps, a theologian and social worker, kicked off the project's Advent series.

See for Yourself - Having encountered a fair number of persons recently who ask, "Is December 8 still a holy day of obligation?" I conclude that the Feast of the Immaculate Conception doesn't have quite the same meaning in the Midwest USA as it does in Nicaragua.

The olive trees on the Mount of Olives next to Jerusalem's Garden of Gethsemane stand gnarled and silent, their knobby trunks reaching out of the rocky hills, a testament to thousands of years of careful cultivation in one of the holiest spots on Earth. This four-acre olive grove belongs to the Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary, who have inhabited this old stone convent for the last 120 years and are looking to solve part of their municipal water bill with ancient technology.

"With any gift there is a giver and a recipient. The giver offers the gift. The recipient's task is simple, to either accept or reject the gift."