A call Dominican Sr. Diana Santleben received about 14 Africans on a parish doorstep in Sydney in 2000 led ultimately to her founding Zara's House Refugee Women and Children's Centre in Newcastle, Australia.
Joan Chittister: Under the aegis of "defense," we have come to exalt the kind of violence that undermines every layer of our society. But now, one U.S. bishop is waking us up to what the Beatitudes are really all about.
