"Do we ignore the commonplace plight of the homeless or sit pondering why and what to do?"

Three Stats and a Map - This morning, the Pew Research Center released a 140-page report on the beliefs and opinions of the United States’ Catholic adult population, an in-depth look at what they believe about family life and the church.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Why would you want to give your entire day to God if it's been a really tough day?

GSR Today - Bomb blasts, shootings and suicide bombers are the every day stories we hear about Afghanistan, but in the midst of it all, brave women religious are undeterred. Three sisters serve the most underserved people of Kabul, creating alternative stories of hope.

Conversations with Sr. Camille - David Hammer, 56,is an inmate serving a life sentence without parole. He talks about his conversion to Catholicism, choices and giving back.

"The life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us.”

GSR Today - I came back to work feeling pumped up about journalism and the world. Then the Internet happened. It’s crazy to me that even today — even among people who should know better — misogyny-tinged racism can be so easy.

GSR Today - For a moment, it appeared that peace may at last come to South Sudan. Meanwhile recovery in Nepal trudges slowly on.

Hundreds of Colombian families have turned to the center, Asociación Hogares Luz y Vida ("Homes of Light and Life"), to aid their children with special needs. As director of the home, Sr. Valeriana García-Martín has worked tirelessly for more than two decades to build an institution that provides needed care for some of Colombia's most vulnerable children. García-Martín, a 74-year-old native of Spain, compares the work to rebuilding a house — "rebuilding the church of the poor," she calls it. And her own role, she believes, is secondary to the example of Jesus' mercy at work in the world. But there is another person whose example she thanks: Pope Francis.

"I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears."