“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”

For me, my GPS does something more than point me down the highway. I know where I am going, most times, but it is something deeper than that. My GPS can make me more aware of the presence of God all around me.

Dominican Sr. Barbara Reid has created a work of feminist biblical interpretation that delves into every book of the Bible. An eight-woman board of feminist scholars helped her coordinate the project, and in November, the first three of what will ultimately be a 58-volume series of feminist biblical commentary were published by Liturgical Press: Hebrews, Haggai and Malachi, and Micah.

GSR Today - Clean water is not a given for millions of people around the world, especially the economically disadvantaged; one Syrian refugee's story; the actual cost of mass deportation is untenable.

For more than 15 years, St. Joseph Sr. Judy Blake has helped the poor in Flint, Michigan, as co-founder of the St. Luke N.E.W. Life Center in 2000, where she is co-director. The center provides meals, a food pantry, literacy classes and job training, serving about 3,000 clients a month. Now Blake is helping the center's clients cope with another disaster as the city of Flint's water crisis grows.

Professional pilgrimage planners and those who regularly receive or accompany pilgrims set off on their own Year of Mercy pilgrimage in late January. Most had experience working with pilgrims to Lourdes, Fatima, the Vatican and World Youth Days. But one had a unique experience: St. Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean says she is a constant pilgrim to the "holy land" of the human dignity and pain of society's most despised members.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - "Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit." Choosing a new name is part of the confimation sacrament, and it can be one of personal, as well as spiritual, significance.

"They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in."

We live in an information age where many of us are constantly plugged in. Technology that fits in my pocket can instantly connect me to loved ones or strangers. My smartphone alerts me to child abductions in my local area, while events thousands of miles away, such as hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and mass migration, unfold before my eyes almost in real time. What does it do to the human psyche and the spirit, I wonder, to regularly witness images of suffering, death and destruction from within our safe and comfortable homes, and then go about our daily lives?

See for Yourself - As I was leaving a store recently, an older man who had been out in the cold for a while approached and held in front of me this green pen with a paper attached.