by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - Air travel just isn’t that much fun anymore. With smaller capacity airplanes, less overhead compartment space, the need to pack more efficiently to avoid baggage charges, cramped passengers, and the seemingly endless security checks before boarding, I can think of other travel activities that are more enjoyable.
by Caroline Mbonu
NCR Contributor
It does seem to me that women never cease finding ways around institutional structures that limit their participation in society and church life. Women’s groups in many traditional African societies have done just that. Today the Catholic Women’s Organizations continue to play a similar role in a church where women seem “not to count.” In Nigeria, the Diocesan Councils of Catholic Women’s Organizations provide avenues for women to be counted.
Three Stats and a Map - How much solar energy would it take to power the United States? Apparently not that much – or so says Tesla CEO Elon Musk. When Tesla announced the creation of its home battery last month, Musk said that to power the entire United States with solar energy, only 160 million homes – or a few counties in Texas, as Fusion pointed out – would need solar panels
by Lissy Maruthanakuzhy
A group of Holy Family Sisters in Old Goa, western India, manage St. Xavier’s Academy, a school where staff provides children with physical and learning disabilities patient and individualized attention so that they can make strides in independent living, academic achievement and finding a way to make a living. The school has transformed the lives of hundreds of differently abled children since opening in 1987. Its reputation has spread throughout India, so much so, that admission seekers come from as far away as Assam, some 2,050 miles away.
From A Nun's Life podcasts - When you were first becoming a sister, what surprises did you encounter? Listen in to two Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary of the Woods.
Sister of Mercy Sr. Barb Supanich has been a doctor for 32 years, but it’s only been in the last 23 that she’s been focused on the chronically ill and dying. Supanich says it was after working as a family physician in small-town Michigan – where her patients ranged from the newborn to the very old – that she first thought about a shift in her ministry. In 1992, she joined the faculty at Michigan State University’s family medicine department, teaching and writing about hospice and palliative care.
GSR Today - Last Thursday was Menstrual Hygiene Day, a day dedicated to both teaching good hygiene practices and to addressing the stigmatization of menstruation that persists in many societies around the world. I love this.
by Margaret Galiardi
Contributor
The anticipation of the pope’s encyclical on ecology and climate change grows with every passing day. Almost everyone seems to have their issue or angle which they hope will be addressed. In parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin it’s all about the extraction of silica sand, used for concocting the fluid made of sand, water and unknown chemicals used to do hydraulic fracturing mining of natural gas from shale deposits. Silica mining causes its own pollution.
Margaret Galiardi, is a Dominican Sister from Amityville, New York, whose passion is the contemplative integration of justice and peace for people and planet. She is a “lover of the wild,” a spiritual director and workshop and retreat leader who has lectured nationally on the New Cosmology and the Christian Story. She spent a year living with the Trappistine monks in their monastery on the Lost Coast of Northern California in the Redwood Forest.
by GSR Staff
“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”
