Notes from the Field - Friendly competition can spur the best teambuilding. At Cristo Rey high school in Boston, Spirit Week is a high point of the year for a lot of our students.

Global Sisters Report has identified another of the 15 communities of U.S. Catholic sisters being asked to provide the Vatican with further clarification in the aftermath of a controversial investigation that concluded 18 months ago.

"I come from all over in many colors, in cultures too numerous to mention. I await your welcome, for you know the Christ, and I stand at your door."

An estimated 7.5 million Hindus came for a holy bath festival at the Kshipra River in Ujjain, some 520 miles south of New Delhi. The Catholic church set up a temporary dispensary to help the people at the festival, and 25 nuns from five religious orders worked there with 120 nurses and assistants for the week.

Presentation Sr. Corine Murray is the executive director of the Presentation Lantern Center in Dubuque, Iowa, which offers one-on-one tutoring in English to adult students from around the world. Murray, who has served as the center's director for 14 years, recalls learning about slavery and other "affronts to human dignity" as a child and credits her passion for history and Catholic social teaching in helping to form her conscience.

On NCRonline - The Vatican's congregation for religious life is contacting the orders to clarify "some points" following the controversial six-year investigation of American communities of women religious.

The inaugural GIVEN forum was June 7-12 and organized by the Council of Major Superiors of Women for young Catholic women as a way to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life. The weeklong, full-scholarship program brought more than 300 women between the ages of 20 and 30 to Washington, D.C., to learn about what Pope John Paul II called "feminine genius" and how to channel that genius into "authentic leadership."

"Water flows over these hands. May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet."

Courageously I have to cut beneath the wounds to see the real source of the pain! I recently viewed the documentary, #BlackLivesMatter. I sat quietly with my shoulders tensely raised, suddenly feeling a need to be incognito in the audience of several African Americans, a few Mexican Americans, and a handful of Caucasians.