May 10 is World Fair Trade Day, and Bote Central, Inc., one coffee processing company in the Philippines, is working to support local farmers through sustainable and Fair Trade practices.

GSR Today - Hands-down, the biggest story of the week has been Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s message to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on April 30. On a happier note, a group of Mexican sisters in Ohio are knocking on doors to bring Catholics back into the fold. And it’s working.

"Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together."

In an open letter released May 8, an ecumenical group of female faith leaders are asking the U.S. Congress to do more to support families.

From NCRonline.org - The following is a timeline of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Analysis from NCRonline.org - In the mid-1920s, working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California, Edwin Hubble began to realize some of the numerous distant, faint clouds of light in the universe were actually galaxies – much like our own Milky Way.
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See also - Renewing the conversation between faith and science by Ilia Delio.

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

The weekend of the papal canonizations, I visited my hometown of Lima, Ohio, to give a presentation for a local Catholic group. This is the fourth time I've been invited, even though my message is a bit unconventional for some. I get away with it because I'm a local-girl-makes-good celeb in this struggling Rust Belt city with a huge heart.

Commentary from NCRonline.org - When I read the latest statement of Cardinal Gerhard Müller of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in regard to LCWR, I was stunned, angry, disappointed and perplexed all at the same time. My first thought: Has he heard that we now have a pope named Francis?

Last August, Ilia Delio, a Sister of St. Francis of Washington, D.C., gave the keynote address “Religious Life at the Edge of the Universe,” at the 2013 LCWR Assembly. Global Sisters Report asked Sr. Delio to respond to Cardinal Müller's remarks about conscious evolution.