"We have a long way to go to undo the patronizing and inaccurate Thanksgiving narratives about Europeans and Native Americans sitting down and sharing a meal," writes Sr. Tracey Horan.
Horizons - Formation Support for Vietnam helps men and women religious who wish to study abroad in the U.S. Women religious gain knowledge and professional skills that they bring back to more effectively serve the church in Vietnam.
In popular imagination, we don't usually put "gift" and "elder adulthood" in the same sentence. I am convinced that there is a very special gift in this stage of life: the invitation to journey inward.
What kind of leadership will we get? Whatever it is, we must always remember that in a democracy, we put the leaders there ourselves and so we must save it ourselves, as well.
More than 1,000 attendees from more than 120 VEYM chapters across the U.S. for the national convention as the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement celebrated its 40th anniversary in the United States.
I'm blessed to walk with sisters whose encounters have touched them so deeply that they return home committed to transform their communities into places of compassion and communities that welcome the stranger.
