Sr. Helen Prejean accompanied Ivan Cantu through his Feb. 28 execution. Her act "mirrors that of the many courageous women who stayed with another man executed for a capital crime," writes Christin Schenk.
India's upcoming general elections, scheduled for May 2024, are crucial for the country's future. A campaign is underway to save India's democratic values.
We need leaders with a certain depth, who listen to the call of their people. To lead is indeed a call. It is to enter into the deep pain of human suffering with deeper solidarity. It is to lead with one's life.
May we each have graced moments on whatever stoop we choose — to listen to the sidewalk prophets, to ponder the things of life and to remember who we are and what we stand for.
Christmas is a call, an invitation and a challenge to interior conversion, communal transformation and external revitalization, letting go, to let emerge and to re-create.
What resonates in everyone's heart is how ordinary people manifest unwavering religious convictions, standing by their faith, facing death, alienation from their family and village, and enduring the loss of land, property and comfort alike.
In some ways we get used to living in a country of war, until something happens to keep us alert to danger. This happened when I went to Loikaw, Myanmar, to visit my parents and Good Shepherd Sisters who work there.
When I looked at a U.S. map, I realized that I did not know the South. More than that, the South made me nervous. So, I said to myself, if I want to "bridge divides," maybe I should start with the divides within myself.
Despite years of intermittent warfare between the Palestinians and Israel, we have hoped that simple decency, public morality, honest governments and personal conscience would sweep down, writes Joan Chittister.