Summer in Bullhead City, Arizona, can be grueling. Temperatures (and tempers!) are often above 120 degrees Fahrenheit during the day in this sometimes-drug-plagued town near the intersection of Nevada, California and Arizona on the Colorado River. As a physician assistant working in psychiatry and emergency medicine and also a Racine Dominican associate, I have grown to love working and living in the Southwest, but summers are a definite test of that love.

Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic and working as sugar cane cutters are isolated by geography and economics from accessing medical care. Medicines for Humanity brings mobile health clinics to more than 20 communities each month. Catholic sisters are integral to the teams that travel to two bateyes: Daughters of Charity in Quisqueya, and the Grey Sisters of Immaculate Conception in Consuelo.

"If you really want to experience the love of God, you will have to come out of the cozy environment of religious life and dedicate your life for serving the needy, sharing their joys and pain. This will shape you as real son or daughter of God."

Nuns on the Bus Blog - When I was growing up, it wasn't an aspiration to become president. And yet, here I was, more than five decades later, about to witness something we had never imagined happening become a real possibility.

A growing movement is recognizing the perils of human trafficking and its wide reach throughout the world. "Trafficking for exploitation robs people of dignity. It is modern-day slavery and evokes the Old Testament situation of Moses seeing the condition of the people in slavery in Egypt and wanting to rescue them."

Check your social media feed or turn on the news these days and you will see and hear much to make you anxious, worried, sad, pessimistic or fearful. No matter how hard it is to take in, I believe we need to keep our eyes, ears and hearts open.

"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty."

Nuns on the Bus Blog - The sisters are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the site of the Democratic National Convention.

"Interpret everything in its most favorable light." My adherence to this centuries-old maxim of the Sisters of St. Joseph is being severely tested right now.

Sr. Suso Kottirikal served as boarding school hostel warden for 16 years, but she quit more than two decades ago to work with people who have Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, and their children. Unlike others who work with leprosy patients, the member of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ chooses to live with them, sharing her room with two patients.