Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world's largest religious media operations, died March 27 at age 92.

Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century. At the same time, the international scope of EWTN's media operations gave her a ready calling card at the Vatican.

GSR Today - The terror attacks last week in Brussels had many people asking: Why Belgium? The answer given over and over is that unlike many countries in Europe, Belgium has large neighborhoods of disaffected youth who are ripe for radical Islamic recruitment.

Everyone knows how to stop the epidemic of teen pregnancies in Tanzania, where one out of every four babies is born to a woman under the age of 18. It is one thing that politicians, teachers, sisters, priests, imams, police officers and activists all agree on. And its success has been proven by plummeting teen pregnancy rates everywhere it has been implemented.

Sr. Lucy Kurien was the only Catholic among 20 women that the Indian government honored with the Nari Shakti Puraska, a women's empowerment award, on March 8, International Women's Day, for outstanding contribution to society. The member of the Holy Cross of Chavanod is the founder of Maher ("My mother's home" in the Marathi language), a string of homes for people who live in poverty in various parts of India. Kurien says she believes serving others irrespective of caste or religion is the best way to show God's love for humans through Christ.

With all of the rhetoric regarding immigrants in our political debates, images of welcoming the gifts of strangers has been playing in my psychic cinema. Real people, coming from other countries, have made a difference to me and my congregation. The marquee of my psychic cinema reads: "Resilience and Reconciliation Brings Renewed Energy."

"The things of the soul must always be considered as plentiful, spacious and large; to do so is not an exaggeration. The soul is capable of much more than we can imagine, and the sun that is in this royal chamber shines in all parts. Whoever does not grow, shrinks."

Many of our friends and family back home in the U.S. and continental Europe think that founding a Cistercian monastery on the island of Tautra in Norway is taking a bit too literally Jesus' command to go out to the ends of the Earth.

"Oh, I wait for those daffy smiles that let me know spring is really coming!"

"In a world with many crosses, we believe in the One who raised Jesus from the Dead."

"Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear."