Small trailers peppered the barren colonia of Penitas, Texas, when Immaculate Heart of Mary Srs. Fatima Santiago, Emily Jocson and Carolyn Kosub arrived in 2003. A recent tornado had ravaged the border town in the Rio Grande Valley, and its residents were long underserved: the town had no shops, schools or Catholic church. Neighbors were strangers, often only making contact at the single stop sign when they dropped off their kids for the school bus.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - "You'd take me there? You'd really take me there? Wow-ee! It's my favorite place." I glanced at the 7-year-old's mother, a long-time friend. We were sitting in her kitchen having a casual ice tea.
by GSR Staff
"The vision of the world to come seldom encourages the flourishing of the material world, but flight from it. It does not promote the splendor of the world we have, but the glory of the next."
by GSR Staff
"How could our church and world be transformed if the Gospel-centered paths of peacemaking and nonviolence were more commonly understood and embraced?"
by Georgia Perry
Three Stats and a Map - Food insecurity — "limited or uncertain" access to food — is a problem for every single county in the United States.
by Kerry DiNardo
Contributor
Notes from the Field - I've been playing sports ever since I can remember. I spent every waking minute that I wasn't in school on the softball or soccer fields and volleyball or basketball courts. These are the places I learned so many lessons and life skills that I still carry with me today: self-confidence, teamwork, commitment, and more.
by Martha A. Kirk
Contributor
One of the people who inspired me and continues to lead me to dramatic boldness was Fr. Daniel Berrigan, who recently died at 94. I recall the last time I was with him was before midnight on New Year's Eve 1999.
by Bernadine Karge
Contributor
Two years ago, when a surge of migrants occurred, the Obama administration declared a policy of detention as deterrence. Non-criminal moms, dads and kids fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries are treated like criminals and locked up in jails.
by GSR Staff
"But with swift pace, light step and unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up no dust, go forward securely, joyfully and swiftly, on the path of prudent happiness . . ."
A Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, Karge is a graduate of Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. She has practiced immigration law in Chicago for more than 30 years. She volunteers in immigration clinics in Chicago and with the CARA Pro Bono Project at the South Texas Residential Family Center in Dilley, Texas, the private prison for noncriminal asylum-seeking women and children. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
