A look into what happened in the community of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania, in 1960: a story of racially motivated rejection, the pain that followed, and an eventual present-day apology to Patricia Grey.

Following last August's presentation to LCWR about anti-black racism among Catholic sisters in the U.S., historian Shannen Dee Williams has been invited to see the archives of and speak directly to a number of congregations. For her, interest in her work epitomizes the complex relationship white women religious have with anti-black racism, as they are now trying to learn more and do the right thing.

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"Getting in touch with our own sense of call is an important form of prayer as it both reminds us of past moments of grace and attunes us to those to come."

Hundreds of Venezuelan children have died amid food and medicine shortages brought about by the country's economic crisis. Two sisters and Catholic organizations like Caritas Internationalis are saving the lives of the children they can reach, but a majority remain in desperate need of help.

Are grand structures for worship necessary? If those who built those majestic churches had paid attention to building human communities, wouldn't that have made a difference? Instead of providing a place for religious rituals, what if they had developed a community center promoting an activity-oriented practical spirituality geared to liberating the poor?

See for Yourself - As I was organizing music for the inter-faith Christian Sunday afternoon service in the chapel of a local physical therapy and rehab center, an older couple walked in. Lou was pushing his wife, Anna, in a wheelchair. They came over to the piano where I was and asked, "Is there a church service this afternoon?"

As the news cycle brings more swirling storms, we want to hunker down, close the doors, and stay safe and warm, away from all the crazy. This is a natural response, and sometimes the right course of action for a time, but it cannot be our default position.

"In the effort to draw us close, God will use anything from stars and prophecies to poetry or restlessness. If we are open to the grace of seeing, anything and everything can be an epiphany."

Sr. Sonia Zuleta Ruiz prayed that God would let her get assigned to work at the Hogar Acogida de Belen, a girls orphanage in Medellín, Colombia. But after almost a year working at the orphanage, she knows this is where she belongs.