by Susan Rose Francois
NCR Contributor
I have a confession to make. I believe in the positive power of government to promote the common good. Yes, that's right, 100 days into the new administration, amid an ongoing toxic political debate with drastic budget cuts on the horizon that will negatively impact people on the margins who are already struggling, I still believe in we the people.
Ruth Gehres, an Ursuline Sister of Mount St. Joseph, has been a teacher and college administrator and served as director of communication for her community. She has a doctorate in English from St. Louis University. From 2007 to 2013, Gehres ministered at the Dianna Ortiz Ursuline Center for Women (Casa Ursulina), an outreach to women of low income in Chillán, Chile.
by GSR Staff
"The monarch caterpillar focuses on what feeds its growth. What feeds our growth?"
by Kathleen Duffy
Contributor
While on retreat at St. Mary's by the Sea in Cape May Point, New Jersey, I love to visit the nature center near the lighthouse and to engage in one of my favorite forms of prayer — bird watching.
by Michele Morek
GSR Today - Inspiration, signs of "evolutionary changes," and ideas for living out mercy were found April 18-20 at the National Catholic Educational Association meeting of more than 8,000 teachers, administrators, superintendents, librarians and archivists.
by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Contributor
When you think about women religious, the word "science" may not be the first to spring to mind, but for many if not most Catholic sisters, what has shaped climate study and other scientific disciplines also bolsters their conviction that all life on Earth is interdependent, and that the time to intervene on behalf of a struggling planet is now. Sisters, volunteers and other community associates are traveling to Washington, D.C., for the People's Climate March on April 29 to make that point.
The work of Religious of Jesus and Mary Sr. Yudith Pereira has taken her from her native Madrid to an office in Rome and villages throughout South Sudan. As project manager of the initiative Solidarity with South Sudan, Pereira helps run the program that includes projects in education, health training and pastoral initiatives.
by GSR Staff
"How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us."
by Lauren Magee
Notes from the Field: I've served in Nong Khai for eight months already, so many aspects of Thai culture have become my new normal. But the Thai New Year reminded me how restrictive my comfort zone still is.
by GSR Staff
"Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us."
