Sisters are helping compile a list of all boarding schools that Catholic entities ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. During this time, tens of thousands of Native American children endured abuse at boarding schools across the U.S.
Alumni of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary's two colleges of social work, Nirmala Niketan and Roshni Nilaya, now head thousands of community-development projects at the grassroots across India.
Indian society is undergoing a second freedom struggle, challenged once again to preserve the country's ethos and rich diversity, and to uphold the values enshrined in our constitution.
GSR Today - Elizabethada Wright is researching Mother Mary Joseph Lynch, a 19th-century Sister of Mercy whose boarding school in Minnesota reflected a drive to integrate Native Americans into the dominant white culture.
Horizons - On the day "The Embrace" was unveiled, honoring Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta, the thing that was most palpable was a sense of Black joy. Joy isn't something you can fabricate. It rises out of freedom, liberation, fullness.
Despite promises of equality, the world measures your worth depending on what market value you hold. The wealth and influence you and your family hold makes the difference.
The Catholic Church's role in the federal government's attempt to destroy Native American culture through boarding schools must be acknowledged and dealt with, says an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Despite witnessing terrible acts like the recent attack in Brazil, we continue to believe in democracy, in peace in the world, working and praying fervently that the gap between rich and poor will be narrowed.