See for Yourself - Something my brother said to his youngest daughter got me thinking: "Don't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."

I suppose being tossed from one side of the emotional spectrum to the other shouldn't really come as a "spiritual surprise," since it seems to have happened even to the disciples as they journeyed with Jesus.

"Frozen colors unite in dreams that need thawing under the light of compassion."

Sr. Simone Campbell suggests that senior clergy at the Vatican are more preoccupied with power than confronting issues that affect the faithful, like clerical sexual abuse. "These men worry more about the form and the institution than about real people," says the Sister of Social Service.

Participants at AMOR XVII in Yangon, Myanmar, said they would carry with them the message of ecological conversion and an affirmation of the meeting's importance in strengthening the work of religious in the region.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - When you have different Lent goals, it can be hard to be around certain "more enthusiastic" Catholics. A listener asks, "Should I give up tiresome friends for Lent?"

Six years after a major earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, Catholic women religious are still working with the thousands of people the triple disasters affected.

GSR Today - I think a lot about fungi. Not just because I happen to think these not-plant and not-animal organisms are cool, but because they have so many things in common with religious life. Let me tell you about two of my favorite fungal friends.

"I decided I wanted to join a group of people who had the same dream that I had: Go to wherever the voice of the poor calls. I could feel that presence of God telling me that more important than helping the other person, it was a matter of helping us all as a group and sharing."