by Megan Sweas
As more Central American migrants cross into the Southwest United States, the Department of Homeland Security wants community organizations to help care for detained families. Churches and nonprofit organizations are working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that the families have access to food and services upon their release, said Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, at a press conference Monday.
On Saturday, people had an opportunity to learn first-hand about spiritual leadership – the LCWR's particular flavor of contemplation-based, collaborative leadership – at an all-day conference at Catholic University sponsored by Solidarity with Sisters and the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies.
by Delia Robertson
Contributor
Dominican Srs. Sheila Flynn and Mary Tuck established Kopanang Community Trust in 2001 to help South African women who face grinding poverty and are affected directly or indirectly by HIV/AIDS. There, they offer spiritual support, access to medical care and therapy, and their embroidery program allows the women to make money to feed their families and improve their homes.
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Delia Robertson is a South African writer and editor who was foreign correspondent for Voice of America for three decades, covering southern Africa. She is the great-great grandniece of Archbishop Charles Constant Jolivet (1826-1903), the first Catholic bishop and archbishop in what is now South Africa; his sister, Mother Margaret Mary (Céline Léonie Marie Jolivet, 1846-1881), was first Superioress of the Loreto Convent, Pretoria, Transvaal.
by Marya Grathwohl
Contributor
In July, 2003, I signed a book contract with Riverhead Publishers. Little did I suspect how dramatically that summer day signature in the living room of Prayer Lodge in Northern Cheyenne country would change my life. Nor did I imagine how much inner work my book about spirituality and care for Earth would demand. Despite having the mission, outline and sample chapters of my book proposal, the manuscript keeps changing as I write: meandering, expanding, deepening.
An Oldenburg Franciscan Sister since 1963, Marya Grathwohl lived for more than 30 years in African American, Crow and Northern Cheyenne communities, as teacher, principal and pastoral minister. While on her congregation’s leadership team, she initiated the revitalization of her community’s farm in Indiana, which employs integrated natural farming methods with vegetable gardens, chickens and heritage breed cattle.
by Catholic News Service
Children of immigrants who "age out" while waiting with their parents for a visa to be admitted to the U.S. will have to start over again in a new line when they turn 21, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 9.
Fr. Michael Crosby belongs to the Midwest Province of the Capuchin Franciscans and is a frequent contributor to National Catholic Reporter.
Although I am a male religious, I must admit that I too have focused (a lot but not intensely) on "conscious evolution." The more I've investigated its premises, the more I find it helpful, especially as I engage the many questions about faith that science raises. It also has helped me as I seek credibility (and believability) as a Catholic religious and priest called to proclaim our faith in a world rapidly being defined by new insights arising from physics, neuroscience and cosmology.
by Susan Rose Francois
NCR Contributor
Presence is not necessarily a word that comes immediately to mind when we think of social networks or the Internet. If we’re honest, the first is probably “distraction.” The second, in my case at least, would be “procrastination.” To be sure, social media serves these functions in our busy lives. If we view the technology through the perspective of human relationship and community, however, it seems that there might be a higher function as well.
