Horizons - The sun may very well be shining outside your window as you read these words, and yet, in many ways, we are surrounded by fog.

"So I'm a feminist and you all should be feminists, because feminism is another word for equality."

See for Yourself - A rainy, soggy Saturday morning couldn't dampen the spirits of energetic booth workers at an outdoor health fair. Several colorful tents dotted the plaza, providing some shelter over the workers and their mountains of informational brochures and give-away items piled on tables inside the small canopies.

Last year, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Louis decided to revamp the way it does vocation and formation, moving from a single vocations director to a team made up of the last four women to join the congregation. That team includes Sr. Amy Hereford, the woman who wrote the book on the future of religious life — or at least one of them.

"The only way to see a new horizon, though, is to change where you are standing. Like falling asleep on a road trip, we awake to find that the cityscape we once saw has given way to fields of green and a flat horizon."

In September 2013, the Sisters of St. Louis opened a new mission in Dawhan, Ethiopia. The three sisters who moved to the mountaintop area struggled with the language and the culture, but three years in, the women have found a home.

GSR Today - In the 1750s when Nano Nagle founded the first of her seven schools in Ireland, the shape of a school was a thatched cottage. It was a school that opened its doors in secret as running a school was a risky business for Catholics. The law forbade it and to be detected was to put oneself in danger of arrest or deportation.

"Where will we find peace and rest from all the pain that seems impossibly broken?"

GSR Today - I used to hate sharing my food. However, I loved when people would share their food with me. It seemed like such a gift for someone to share something delicious, and it was a gift I rarely declined. Why aren't they keeping it for themselves? I wondered.

You know, of course, what solidarity means, don't you? Or do you? In our time when humanity is pushed and pulled through a vast wilderness, when refugees are massively scorned, when parents cannot protect children against violence and hunger, and when riches are hoarded as if life and salvation depend on extraordinary accumulation, it seems an apt season to re-examine solidarity.