Mercy Sr. Maureen Lally is founder of the Tóchar Valley Rural Community Network, a grassroots initiative in Ireland that empowers 18 rural communities by establishing microenterprises producing homegrown products.

GSR Today - "We need to look as a nation to our obligations and reach out to help people — especially since we are a rich nation. The U.S. government is obliged to help people in desperate situations."

A group of about 75 people, including two dozen women religious, will travel to Honduras to see for themselves why tens of thousands of people have fled for their lives.

We wanted to visit the children in detention at the border. We wanted to know what a day in their upset lives looked like; who was caring for them; whether they could play and pray and sing.

Sisters of the Daughters of the Divine Love run Charity Home, which provides food, shelter, clothing, and medical and education services to homeless or abandoned children and children from poor families across Nigeria.

From National Catholic Reporter - Fr. José Amaro's supporters say the charges are politically motivated, meant to discredit the ministry he continued after the 2005 assassination of Sr. Dorothy Stang.

Simply Spirit - Is God calling us to a radical metanoia? A turning ourselves around so as to celebrate human sexual differences and reconsider who has decision-making voice in the church?

From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this random nun clip, Sister Maxine and Sr. Shannon Schrein reflect how we can consider suffering in a redemptive manner.

Dominican Sr. Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, challenged the group of students, professors and clergy in her audience March 12 at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel to a thought experiment. Making them visualize the story of the good Samaritan, she asked them to graft it onto their own lives, imploring, "Who is lying by the side of the road?" and later, "Am I one of the priests or Levites who passed by?"