The UN has been proposing seventeen Sustainable Developmental Goals. They are goals worth supporting and worth working for. Pope Francis has been repeatedly asking everyone, especially members of religious orders, to move to the “peripheries”
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Sister Angela, a doctor working in a large and busy hospital, sees that a patient needs some tests done. The family looks upset, and are about to leave the hospital. The kind sister realizes that
When I was asked to put down a few lines on how I meet God, I started wondering. Meeting God? I mused. I am already existing in Him. I live, I move and have my
When we look at the history of religious life, it seems remarkable that just a few decades ago it was so fascinating to young people all over the world. It attracted even people from well-to-do
The Name of God is Mercy is in many ways an extraordinary book – it is the result of a face-to-face interview with Pope Francis by a long-time Vatican expert and journalist, Andrea Tornielli (the
Adele Pereira shares the shock and struggle of couples who find they cannot have children, and positive ways of helping them. She helps us look at adoption as good news—for the parents and the child.
The warm personal story of Emanuela Carponi, a Focolarina from Italy who spent thirteen years in India. Her search for God did not lead to the convent, but to an active life in the midst
The Single Best Invention The following quote is from the moving and much-quoted Commencement Address that Steve Jobs, the creative genius who founded Apple Computers, gave at Stanford University. “When I was 17, I read
A Popular Principal Sr. Jessie is very popular with the teachers and the girls of the college where she is principal. Members of her community like her. She has good relations with the priests of