In July, 2003, I signed a book contract with Riverhead Publishers. Little did I suspect how dramatically that summer day signature in the living room of Prayer Lodge in Northern Cheyenne country would change my life. Nor did I imagine how much inner work my book about spirituality and care for Earth would demand. Despite having the mission, outline and sample chapters of my book proposal, the manuscript keeps changing as I write: meandering, expanding, deepening.

Children of immigrants who "age out" while waiting with their parents for a visa to be admitted to the U.S. will have to start over again in a new line when they turn 21, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 9.

Although I am a male religious, I must admit that I too have focused (a lot but not intensely) on "conscious evolution." The more I've investigated its premises, the more I find it helpful, especially as I engage the many questions about faith that science raises. It also has helped me as I seek credibility (and believability) as a Catholic religious and priest called to proclaim our faith in a world rapidly being defined by new insights arising from physics, neuroscience and cosmology.

Presence is not necessarily a word that comes immediately to mind when we think of social networks or the Internet. If we’re honest, the first is probably “distraction.” The second, in my case at least, would be “procrastination.” To be sure, social media serves these functions in our busy lives. If we view the technology through the perspective of human relationship and community, however, it seems that there might be a higher function as well.

GSR Today - The 25-year-old Italian singing nun who has wowed audiences around the world with her soaring renditions of pop tunes won Italy’s version of “The Voice” on Thursday. Sr. Cristina Scuccia’s performances on the show since March have been watched by millions of people on YouTube.

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me."

Catholic leaders have raised concerns that Latin American migrants are increasingly in danger of human rights violations, particularly the ballooning number of minors trying to make the trip from Central America to the United States alone.

Sr. Judy Zielinski, a Sister of Saint Francis of Sylvania, Ohio, is the director of faith and values programing at NewGroup Media, a communications company in South Bend, Ind. Before joining to the company in 2012, she served as the communications director for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men in Washington, D.C., and spent 10 years in Los Angeles working for Family Theater Productions.