For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph refused to lease land to gas companies. Now they have no choice. A new West Virginia law allows fracking against a landowner's wishes if enough neighbors agree to fracking on their land.
La Hna. Judy Bisignano, conocida como la 'Hermana Jaguar', dedicó su vida al pueblo achuar y a la selva amazónica ecuatoriana. Después de su muerte en 2023, la organización Maketai —que cofundó y que significa ‘gracias’ en lengua achuar— sigue impulsando proyectos de ecoturismo, reforestación y educación que fortalecen la autodeterminación indígena y honran la memoria de la religiosa.
We might take the Season of Creation as an opportunity not only for an examination of conscience, but also a time to meditate on war and peace in the human community, the cosmic community of creation and even in our own hearts.
The fullness and intensity of the Lord of the cosmos — through whom, with whom, and in whom all that is, is — is made present to us under the appearance of simple bread and wine of the altar. Everything that exists serves as the backdrop for that which is most wonderful and surprising of all: God comes to us.
To learn how to be seeds of peace and hope, consider the trees, which take a long time to grow and mature. They are seeds of peace and hope, too, "pointing to," as Pope Leo says, "the promise of new beginnings."
In the video released by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, Leo recites his own prayer linking the 800th anniversary of the Canticle of Creation and the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
Molly Zimmerman understands that pumping porta-potties, grooming trails and coordinating hundreds of volunteers isn't how everyone is called to cultivate their God-given gifts, but it's how she has been called — hesitantly and full of worry, at times — to cultivate hers.
A winding life of curiosity led Dominican Sister Pat Farrell to religious life, a vegan diet and powerlifting. The Californian won her weight class for bench pressing 77 pounds and deadlifting more than her body weight.
