"Globally, there is deeper awareness about the social concerns facing our world that cannot be handled without cooperation. We need each other to transform our world."

Everyone is born with worth and dignity, choices and opportunities. Unfortunately, some individuals enlarge their own choices and opportunities at the expense of others by creating unjust systems and structures. This deprivation of the humanity of others became clearer to me as a provincial of my religious community some years ago.

A new book by Sr. Susan K. Wood, a theologian and Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, and Timothy J. Wengert, a Lutheran historian, sheds light on the similarities and differences of Catholicism and Lutheranism in time for the start of the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation.

"Our light and love has created a celebration, a strong connection."

GSR Today - Haiti seems to get hit by one natural disaster after another, but its people express a distrust of the aid organizations that routinely pour in to offer "recovery." The country really needs deep and lasting infrastructure development.

GSR Today - Voices lifted in song as more than 135 sisters from 123 congregations across Africa carried lit candles from meeting rooms where Mass had been celebrated down the hotel's sweeping staircase and into the warm Nairobi night.

I have learned a lot of wisdom in my life from small children. One spring Sunday morning a little boy was walking with his grandma, and I met them on the way. He was running from bush to bush in such delight and wonder, watching the new buds bursting forth and inviting his grandma to see it.

"There is no country in the world where all people have equal opportunities to fulfill their aspirations. Every country has poverty and inequalities to address. Every country has environmental problems to remedy."

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Given the vow of poverty that sisters take and the particularities of each community, we talk about how to approach gift-giving to women religious in your life.

"Leaves in their glory caught in the waters of time, crackling like glass. We are people in a moment, holding just a piece of it in our vision."