See for Yourself - "I have a niece graduating from an aviation management program, so I stopped here to see what kind of pilot gifts you might have," I say to the shop clerk at the small regional airport near where I live.

"God gives us the whirlwind in which to live. We aren't given safe, secure cocoons where we can escape the rough-and-tough of existence. We are given the storm, and we're told to blossom amid all the rain and thunder."

"For us, business is secondary to community. Supporting one another is essential to our success, and no one should have to carry a burden alone."

From A Nun's Life podcasts - The church year gives a name to the space between: ordinary time, with its own color and feel, when we focus on living the life of Christ, day in and day out.

Cross of Chavanod Sr. Catherine Bernard, founder-director of the Service and Research Institute on Family and Children in India, believes God has chosen her to be a family life professional in an era of family breakdowns.

Caracas, Venezuela - Amid a spiraling economic crisis, the government is accused of authoritarianism. Among the protesters is Dominican Sr. Zulay Luján: "My goal is to be with the people, not with any political group, but with the people who are struggling." Protests here were sparked April 1 when the country's Supreme Court attempted to strip the National Assembly, the only opposition-controlled branch of government, of its powers. Protests have continued roughly four days a week since.

Notes from the Field - Our producers are a powerhouse group of women whose internal strength is seen in the way they carry others and continue to be resilient when encountering trauma.

The School Sisters of Notre Dame, when our foundress was still around in the mid 1800s, had a problem with the archbishop of Munich: They wanted to lead the congregation themselves, without being overseen by a male director. What she and the sisters did can be applied to women religious today.

"Let us become the first generation that decides to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods, and wasted potentials."

Three months after India's theologians and Catholic religious pressed a congress of bishops to act aggressively against a wave of sex abuse cases involving priests, no official response has come.