Servant of Jesus Sr. Angèle Gapio brings a message of peace to rebels and solidarity to the displaced in the war-ravaged region of Ituri, in the Bunia Diocese in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sr. Annie Killian organized a rally in Columbus, Ohio, calling for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza.. "Our love of truth impels us not to stand idly by," she writes.
I feel disheartened seeing our vocations being manipulated by patriarchal, misogynist and sexist elements. Isn't consecrated life meant to raise our spirits to heaven and expand the horizons of our mission?
Sr. Helen Prejean accompanied Ivan Cantu through his Feb. 28 execution. Her act "mirrors that of the many courageous women who stayed with another man executed for a capital crime," writes Christin Schenk.
We understand God's love better in our time because of the many good Samaritans around us. It is in helping the needy, poor and marginalized that we can lead a holy life, imitating the acts of Jesus' love.
Horizons - "Many gave false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree." Doesn't this passage sound like a summary of a current news story and not a Gospel scene that unfolded millennia ago?
When I confront the privilege and oppression within me and experience the pain they cause, I am more able to see the destruction and pain these systems and mindsets cause to others.
"We have been taught that the poor have nothing to offer," Sr. Lavina D'Souza writes. "True hospitality, however, is a privilege of interacting with the poor, and considering them as carriers of gifts."