Viewpoint on NCRonline.org - On March 27, Pope Francis and President Barack Obama met to discuss, among other topics, their shared concern about the moral and economic crisis of growing income inequality. Pope Francis has deplored "unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities," and President Obama has called inequality "the defining issue of our time." Our Catholic faith teaches that addressing inequality must include just wages and working conditions for those in the labor force.

GSR Today - A farmer in central Washington is running for state government and, to boost support, plans to give away two pistols and a military-style rifle to three lucky people who provide names, zip codes and email addresses to his campaign website.

"I measure every Grief I meet with narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size . . . ."

Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, Texas, says that he hopes Pope Francis will meet with the U.S. women religious leaders and that the tension between the women and the hierarchy will be resolved quickly.

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests in a letter to Pope Francis criticized the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for his recent comments chastising the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

The third in a series of reports for GSR about the war in South Sudan and its toll, this article looks at how women are striving for continuous development amid ongoing disruption. It falls to women to keep families together in the midst of chaos, insecurity and death. And the intangibles – the way things get lost in a country at war, like a commitment to education, to literacy, to health – are all of concern of women.
Also by Chris Herlinger - Easter hope for South Sudan  and,
on NCRonline.org, In South Sudan, 'everything they are doing, they are doing with tears'

". . . the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

From NCRonline.org - Although the Nuns on the Bus, films such as "Radical Grace" and books like Jesus Feminist have or are gaining some notoriety, in academia, the binary is so acute that little research exists on just how women manage to occupy both identities. One woman who could be considered a model for how faith informs one's feminism: Sr. Lucy Freibert.

I learn so much from my sister Carol. She teaches me about being in the moment and listening. Carol, who was born with Down’s Syndrome, has limited communication skills. If she is in a group and feels left out and “can’t get a word in edgeways” – as my mother used to say – she taps me on the shoulder and says, “Excuse me, excuse me. You are not listening to me.” In the last few weeks there were a number of times when people and events tapped me on the shoulder insistently with “Excuse me, excuse me. You are not listening to me.”