Horizons - One Saturday a few years ago, I missed the convent carpool to Mass and opted to go to a funeral Mass at a neighboring parish. Little did I know that God had a message for me there that would last a lifetime.

Nuns on the Bus Blog - "We may be a quiet bunch, but know that we're soaking it in." The Nuns on the Bus make their way across the Midwest and in the process meet only a cardboard cutout of an Iowa congressman.

Nuns on the Bus Blog - "The kids need us. The community needs us." That's what we all need to be about, says Sr. Jan Cebula as she reports from Des Moines, Iowa.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, we talk about the power of education to liberate and heal. 

For more than three decades, the subterranean level of Trinity United Methodist Church in Berkeley, California, is the place the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant has called home. Its simple red door at the bottom of a stairway has been the gateway to safe and secure passage into the United States for thousands of immigrants and refugees. Despite its rundown environs, Franciscan Sr. Maureen Duignan, the organization's executive director, is deeply worried the program may soon lose this space.

Rome - Sr. Sally Hodgdon said there are two nonordained religious brothers serving as full voting members of the Vatican's synod on young people, while seven sisters have nonvoting roles. "That should change."

Nuns on the Bus Blog - Sr. Ilaria Buonriposi reports from the Nuns on the Bus's visit to the office of Rep. Don Bacon and rally in Omaha, Nebraska.

In order to infiltrate the invisible world, we have to live in the present. When our ego moves from the chauffeur's seat to the traveler's seat, we become aware that the universe has a vast conspiracy to drop us at the doorstep of greater good. 

Vatican City - The two umbrella groups representing male and female religious orders are planning to present Pope Francis with a proposal to give women a larger role in future synods.