GSR Today - Are U.S. presidential candidates really listening to the people when it comes to immigration policy? How is winter making Syrian refugee life even worse? Can a biographical film bring more empathy and action to the refugee situation?
Judy Dohner is a Sister of the Humility of Mary from Villa Maria, Pennsylvania. She has worked with migrants and immigrants for the past 30 years. She returned to the United States in 2018 after ministering in Haiti for 16 years and currently works with Haitian immigrants and refugees in Immokalee, Florida. She has written for Global Sisters Report and the National Catholic Reporter.
by GSR Staff
"The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life."
by Carol Hoverman
Contributor
As the eyes of the nation focus on the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1, the 13 congregations of Catholic Sisters of the Upper Mississippi River Valley want to capture the attention of participants to call for an end to environmentally destructive policies and practices, placing more than 20 billboards in strategic locations throughout state, southwest Wisconsin and western Illinois.
Carol Hoverman, OSF, is a member of the Dubuque Franciscan Sisters. In 2015 she retired as director of communications and editor of The Witness, the archdiocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa. She is a member of the Sisters United News (SUN) and parish musician at St. Patrick parish, Dubuque.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, we talk about the Year of Consecrated Life, which ends on February 2, 2016, and its effects on the church and world.
by Christin Tomy
We live three miles from a coal-fired power plant. On cold, still days, the smoke it releases barely moves; it piles upward in a tall column like a solitary cumulonimbus cloud. It was on such a morning (a mere 2 degrees!) that I pulled on my snowshoes for a hike in the park adjacent to our farm. The sky was clear and I was sure a beautiful sunrise would await me over the shores of Lake Michigan. The power plant was ahead of me for much of my hike, its smoke billowing pink in the pre-dawn light.
by GSR Staff
"Struggles for justice have been with us from our beginnings, even though we framed our work differently and had to grow into its current understandings. . . ."
by Janet Gildea
Contributor
I have never left a theater during intermission. Maybe the show has just not been bad enough to forfeit the price of admission. Usually there is enough curiosity to know how the story might be redeemed to keep me in my seat. I just received the sixth (and I hope last) round of chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer. While in the throes of post-chemo side-effects I must admit that there are moments I'd like to leave the theater before the show is over.
by GSR Staff
"At its core, vocation is a call to be who we are with intention and to live intentionally in relationship with others and with God. . . ."
