by GSR Staff
July 4, 2016
"Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world."
This story appears in the See for Yourself feature series. View the full series.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
July 1, 2016
See for Yourself - Sitting across from my sister at a recent family gathering was a perfect location for me when her granddaughter climbed up on her lap clutching a "Curious George" book. We looked knowingly at each other as my sister situated little Samantha on her lap and pointed to the book.
This story appears in the Nuns on the Bus feature series. View the full series.
July 1, 2016
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
July 1, 2016
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
June 30, 2016
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
June 30, 2016
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
June 30, 2016
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
June 30, 2016
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
June 30, 2016
"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."