When your family doesn't understand

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Before she entered religious life, Sister Ana Gonzalez had a tough time convincing her mom it was the right choice. Discover what changed her mom’s mind!

family discussion

The cup of life

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S. Scholastica continues to live the cup of her life, and nurture the lessons presented in ordinary symbols like a cup.

A Nun's Life cup

A decade later, a miraculous reunion

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Leaving Vietnam in small batches, Sr. Trish Doan’s family traveled to the United States over the course of a decade – and at long last, every member of the family was reunited in their adoptive home.

Vietnamese refugees in a boat

Discovering her true identity

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Not until she was working with unaccompanied minors in US Immigration Services did Sr. Trish Doan realize the truth: as a Vietnamese refugee making her way to the United States, she herself had been an unaccompanied minor.

Vietnamese girl sits by herself near a boat

Healing racism in religious community

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For many religious communities, confronting the sin of racism means re-examining their own history.

Participants at the 2019 Healing Racism Workshop of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Courtesy of Jane Aseltyne)