justice, peace, care
Fighting World Hunger with (Vocabulary) Words
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Just came across this great website — FreeRice.com — which donates 20 grains of rice for every word you correctly define. FreeRice.com, sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com, works with the UN World Food Program to help end hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
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Quietly Doing God’s Work
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Don’t miss this article by Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, “Quietly Doing God’s Work” (April 17, 2008). Here’s a quote from the article:
At approximately the same time the pope was standing in the White House, Sister Carmen Soto was standing in a food pantry on Monroe Street in Mount Pleasant, 3 miles north of 1600 […]
Catholic Links for Earth Day
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Earth Day Reflections by Sister Mary McCann, IHM
Earth Day Prayer Service by the Sisters of the Holy Family
Faithful Stewards of God’s Creation by the US Catholic Bishops
Prayers celebrating God’s Creation by the US Catholic Bishops
Earth Day Catholic e-Greetings Cards
How Earth Day became … so everyday
IHM Sister featured on ReadTheSpirit.com
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Sister Mary McCann, one of my IHM Sisters, has been writing wonderful reflections in A Time to Sow, an IHM quarterly publication on the spirituality of sustainability. Mary is a beloved Sister, a very good writer, and a prayerful woman with stunning insight into life, God, and God’s creation.
In preparation for Earth Day (April 22) […]
A Persistent Peace
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008This is a powerful video … click play and check it out.
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I’m proud to say that Loyola Press, my place of ministry, is publishing A Persistent Peace, the newest book by John Dear, SJ. Father Dear is am amazing guy and has done so much to reach out to people, to work for nonviolence and peace, and […]
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