The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.
Realizing it had been a year since the Ukraine-Russia war broke out, I intensified my prayers for its end. I also researched the war's global impact: I was surprised how much the war has affected so many people in India.
GSR Today - Call it a prompting by the Holy Spirit. When I asked to go along on a trip to Ukraine, that leap into the unknown took me on a long path of meeting Catholics who are helping victims of this terrible war.
Even though a year has passed since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war has not stopped for a single day, not for a single hour. A Ukrainian Basilian sister tells her story.
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.
