The fifth annual Nuns on the Bus tour begins July 11. This year's theme is aimed at mending the gaps in U.S. society. The sisters will visit with people in 22 cities in 13 states and will be present in Cleveland, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in time for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
by Tracy Kemme
Contributor
On June 15, we gathered at the Cincinnati airport to begin a journey. Our group was comprised of 11 teachers and parish ministers from the Cincinnati archdiocese, traveling together to visit the villages from which our Guatemalan students and parishioners come.
by Margaret Susan Thompson
Contributor
As the Nuns on the Bus prepare to hit the road again, and as memories of the so-called Little Sisters of the Poor case before the Supreme Court remain fresh in American memories, it is tempting to regard the political activities of sisters as something modern and out of the ordinary. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Margaret Susan Thompson is a professor of history at Syracuse University. She is a scholar of the history of women's religious life and has published and spoken extensively on the history of American sisters. She is an associate with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan.
by Georgia Perry
Three Stats and a Map - "In order to understand the current era of urbanization, we must understand long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns."
by George Rodriguez
Contributor
Sr. Isabel Cortés is in the midst of a months-long migrant crisis unfolding at a crossing on the 330-kilometer border between Costa Rica and Panama.
by George Rodriguez
Contributor
Since November, Congregation of Missionary Servants of Christ the King Srs. Isabel Cortés and María Mercedes Calero have been helping migrants from Cuba and, increasingly, from Africa and Asia, who are getting stuck in Costa Rica without legal paperwork to advance northward toward the United States.
by GSR Staff
"Because the serious issues in our 21st-century world are not contained by national boundaries, our responses to these issues cannot stop at our borders."
by Kerry DiNardo
Contributor
Notes from the Field - The last day of the 2015-2016 school year, June 17, was also the last day of my two years as a volunteer at Cristo Rey Boston High School. It came quicker than I thought possible. I spent the last couple of weeks completing the "lasts" of my volunteer duties at school.
by GSR Staff
"Jesus says to Peter, 'You are the rock.' Did he mean that instead of sitting high on a throne, he should be like a seagull chick, blending in with all the other rocks? Like Pope Francis says, the shepherd should have the smell of the sheep. Be the beautiful harmony of the rocks on the shore, each contributing to the whole, and supporting the others."
