"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change."

 "To the degree that we are present to ourselves, we are in the very same act present to and with the Greater Than Self."

Internalized patriarchal values contribute to how women religious are treated in India, where activists are working to draw attention to the need for formal practices to handle clergy abuse of women religious, which ranges from withholding sacraments, to using nuns as domestic laborers, to taking over their institutions and to sexual abuse.

This past Sunday, my body tuned into a communal woundedness. It was as if, in a way, I could feel in my bones an echo of the laceration that had been inflicted upon my brothers and sisters during the massacre in Orlando a week prior.

The Sisters of the Holy Family have been serving in New Orleans since 1842, founded by Henriette Delille, a free black woman, during a time when the Catholic church was reluctant to extend religious life to non-whites. Eleven years after Hurricane Katrina, the community has recovered from a criminal investigation and rebuilt most of its ministries, including a nursing home and school.

"Even when we get very, very angry at a particular piece of art, the Spirit is speaking. The question is, what's the anger about? And what's under the anger?"

Advocates for immigration reform are dismayed but not surprised that a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court June 23 let stand a lower court ruling blocking a plan to spare some immigrants from deportation.

The human rights forum at the Carter Center this week brought together people from around the globe who had invested their lives in the welfare of people they did not know.

In November, Sister of the Good Shepherd Glynis Mary McManamon opened Shepherding Images Studio/Good Shepherd art gallery in Ferguson, Missouri. Her gallery opened just in time for the anniversary of a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown — the event that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

See for Yourself - I was chatting with a friend who works in the health insurance industry. He maintained that people will only do things if there's financial motivation; however, it's not just any financial motivation that works, but skin-in-the-game financial motivation.