Notes from the Field – I was fortunate to attend the 63rd session of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women. I wondered, under an administration that systematically dictates the exclusion of people from certain countries, what qualifies me to participate in these conversations?

We should im-peace the whole bunch in national government. Forget the partisanship. Forget the negativity and hating each other. Forget the specter of impeaching leadership because we can't stand what's going on. 

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?