"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.
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.
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.
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!
"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."
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.