"Season of harvest. Season of thanksgiving. We are blessed indeed!

Before social media existed, I had a choice about when and how to access my various newsfeeds. But with social media, all of our newsfeeds — personal, professional, local and global — are intertwined. So what do we do when our newsfeeds feel overwhelming because of too much violence and grief? How do we go to our favorite social network to connect with friends and, in the process, encounter a cute baby animal video or, conversely, a heartbreaking photo of recent violence?

Prof. Sr. Patricia Lanigan teaches in Kenya at the Institute of Social Ministry at Tangaza College, using an academic approach to community-driven development

More than 500 women religious from across the United States and Canada gathered last weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, for the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious' symposium on religious life, an event inspired by the Year of Consecrated Life and Pope Francis' 2014 call for men and women religious to "wake up the world."

Book Review - In Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness, Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio offers up both Pope Francis and the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious as models of catholicity in our times.

Commentary - How do I write anything this week that hasn’t already been written? You already know what is on my mind and heart. Paris. Beirut. Baghdad. Syria. Terrorism. Refugees. Reflections, opinions, tirades, videos, and prayers have been pulsing through the Internet.

"People know about the scientific facts of environmentalism. But faith is their belief, it is the ethical part of environmentalism. What does your faith say about the environment? What does your Bible or Quran say? If you link it to that, people take it into their hearts and it’s more effective. It’s our responsibility."

Notes from the Field - I split my workweek between Big Laurel and the high school at the bottom of the mountain. As an aide, I feel pressure to step up and raise the classroom standard, but my lack of teaching experience is a big stumbling block.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - We talk with special guest Loretto Sr. Maureen Fiedler, host of the radio program Interfaith Voices and frequent blogger for National Catholic Reporter.

"How do we disperse the seeds of the Gospel?"