In topographically challenged New Orleans, where "running water" can be a pejorative depending on whether it is flowing inside or outside the house, a long-promised, 25-acre stormwater management and flood control project called the Mirabeau Water Garden will be a welcome sight.
Emily McFarlan Miller
Contributor
Sr. Helen Prejean talked to Religion News Service about how she became involved in social justice, why she thinks the death penalty is on its way out and how she got to "bump into two popes along the way."
Emily TeKolste is a temporary professed Sister of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Originally from the Indianapolis area, she developed a passion for justice during her time as a student at Xavier University in Cincinnati and lived in the Indianapolis Catholic Worker community for three years before entering her community. She ministers (remotely) as grassroots mobilization coordinator for Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice in Washington, D.C.
by Daniel P. Horan
From NCRonline.org: St Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean's memoir shows there is no singular point of decision in the Christian life. Rather, there is a constant need for ongoing conversion, growth, and change guided by the Holy Spirit.
by Nazaria Nataliya Mykhayliuk
Contributor
The shared work for the glory of God filled all the participants with special joy and inspiration while painting the monastery of the Basilian sisters in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Step-by-step, colorful iconographic compositions in the traditional style of Eastern Catholic churches filled this holy place with the visible presence of the invisible God and the saints.
Sumon Corraya is a journalist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He covers issues in the Christian community and other faith issues of Bangladesh.
by Judith Best
Contributor
As my city remembers the fifth anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a white police officer, as the nation marks 400 years since the start of African slavery, there are disturbing signs that the racial divide in St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, continues to escalate.
Nazaria Nataliya Mykhayliuk is a Sister of the Order of Saint Basil the Great (Province of the Most Holy Trinity), an international order of the Eastern Catholic Church. She studied economics at Lviv University in the Ukraine before entering her community. Later, she worked in school and parish ministry with sisters from the Philadelphia Province at a Ukrainian Catholic parish in Mississauga, Canada, near Toronto. After final vows in 2002, she studied iconography in Lviv, then was missioned to Zhytomyr.
by Saji Thomas
Contributor
Global Sisters Report spoke with Sr. Lucy Kalappura, who says she was dismissed by her congregation for using media outlets to seek justice for a nun who accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of rape. Kalappura describes the struggles with her superiors and church leaders that led to her dismissal.
by Catholic News Service
The Indian government has declined to renew the visa of an elderly Spanish nun who had ministered to the country's poor people for five decades.
