by Suzanne King
Contributor
Living the Gospel - Sr. Berta Sailer and Sr. Corita Bussanmas have helped three generations of children in the urban core of Kansas City, Mo., from providing day care and education to lobbying to change state legislation. With Operation Breakthrough, their care extends to the children's families, and they have gone even further, adopting children into their own. Sailer works to change attitudes, too, saying poverty exists because we allow it.
Suzanne King is a freelance journalist based in Kansas City, Mo. She has held reporting and editing positions with The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Business Journal and other newspapers in the northeastern United States. Suzanne has spent time covering education, municipal governments and businesses in the telecommunications industry. She holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She and her husband have three children.
by Jan Cebula
GSR Today - The collection of 10 addresses from LCWR presidents, 1977 to 2013, in Spiritual Leadership for Challenging Times are enlightening and instructive snapshots of how religious life has moved through major transitions set in motion by the Second Vatican Council's call to engage the world in light of the Gospel and adapt to the times.
by Christine Schenk
In my, inaugural column Jan. 23, I invited readers to share their own experiences of Spirit. Since Pentecost is Sunday, it seems a great time to share some of your heartfelt responses. There isn't room to print them all, but this sampling should satisfy the curiosity of anyone who's wondering if the Spirit is still alive and well in our world!
by GSR Staff
"Jesus said that those Christians who were led by the Spirit were like the wind — you don’t know where it comes from and you don’t know where it’s going."
by Maureen Finn
Contributor
For religious women and men throughout Brazil, the World Cup Games are seen as a “mega event” that will augment an already very serious violation against human dignity: human trafficking in its various forms. We know that this is highly organized crime, with national and international networks of procurers, transporters and sellers. But religious have been organizing, too.
Maureen Finn has lived in Brazil since January 1984, after doing parish work in Selma, Alabama, for 8 years. In Brazil she has done pastoral ministry in small communities in central west Brazil, and currently is the regional coordinator for the Conference of Brazilian Religious in the state of Goias. She lives in community with Joana Mendes and three other Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester.
#YesAllWomen - In early May, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights presented the results of their survey looking at gender-based violence against women in the European Union. The FRA conducted one-on-one interviews with 42,000 women from all 28 member states, asking them about their experiences with physical and sexual violence.
by Kathy Coffey
Sr. Bernadette Teasdale's work over the past 30 years built up the Center for Contemplative Living, which now serves more than 4,000 people and is supported by a staff of 90 volunteers. Retreats and workshops there follow the centering prayer practice, especially the work of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating.
by Ilia Delio
A common good implies a cosmic good; the good of any one part is the good of the whole. The problem of religion today as the glue of the common good is the radical disconnect of religion from the whole. If indeed religion is the core dimension of human life, and life is fragmented politically, socially, religiously and economically, it is no wonder that the fastest growing spirituality today is that of the "NONES" or those of no institutional affiliation?
