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March 23, 2025: Third Sunday of Lent
...farming and livestock production, insatiable materialism fed by capitalism (profit over people and planet), racism and colonialism are some of the biggest contributors to the crisis. For centuries many wise and intelligent people and the Earth herself have warned us of the direction we are going. So, what are we to do? How might we live in peace and harmony with other human and more-than-human beings? We must repent and change our ways locally, nationally and globally. Action This Lent,...
Everything is Connected — Many Things Have to Change Course
Note: We want to share these blogs which have been adapted from “Our Common Home,” a joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development along with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). This is the eighth blog in a series of eight. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ (202) We do not stand separate from the planet we share with other life; we are intimately related to it and so are also responsible for its care. This truth must be recognized...
Peaceful people demand facility closing
...some excellent rebuttal statements for the two men who were defending the SOA/WHINSEC. The U.S. Army has an intricate plan to fight off criticism of the SOA/WHINSEC called “Strategic Communications Campaign Plan.” It’s an ongoing public relations effort on the part of the Army to counter negative publicity about the Fort Benning, Ga., combat training school for Latin American soldiers. Many of the school’s graduates have been implicated in human rights abuses throughout Latin America. Among other things, the plan...
Three Sisters of Providence arrested in Georgia for participation in non-violent protest at Army base
...the attacks by the military on people in those countries. The facility at Fort Benning trains Latin American military in “anti-insurgency” tactics. For decades, numerous SOA graduates have been linked directly by the United Nations and human rights groups to the torture and massacre of their own people when they return home. The training school is supported by United States tax dollars. The annual national protest at Fort Benning is organized by SOA Watch. SOA Watch is an independent organization...
Three Sisters of Providence to stand trial Jan. 27 for crossing government line during non-violent protest
Three Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., will stand trial Jan. 27 in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ga., for their arrest in November 2002 during a non-violent protest against the School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga. The SOA, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), trains Latin American military in anti-insurgency tactics. For decades, numerous SOA graduates have been linked directly by the United Nations and human rights groups to the...
Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara
...civil rights movement, all of the justice movements, the boycotting, and I did my share of boycotting,” she said. Sister Ann Margaret was in Washington D.C. when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. “There were fires in the city. We had infantry guarding our college. We had seminarians with baseball bats come to protect us. We stayed up all night feeding the guys who were protecting us and we worked all day in the emergency shelters helping people...
A Prayer by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
David Brunsma (far left) and Sister Helen Prejean, both speakers at Human Rights Day in 2009, greet local activists. God of Compassion, You let your rain fall on the just and the unjust. Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love as You love, even those among us who have caused the greatest pain by taking life. For there is in our land a great cry for vengeance as we fill up death rows and kill the killers...
SP mission: alive with the times
...— we honor Divine Providence through works of love, mercy and justice. In the 1990s we determined that our ways of service would be: Educating for human development and against ignorance wherever it is found Developing in ourselves and assisting others to develop in their lives meaningful worship and prayer Working to develop an attitude of social justice in whatever ministry we serve Working to establish the reality of social justice on every level: Congregational, Church-related and civic Working to...
Celebrating Labor Day from a ‘different perspective’
During Labor Day, Sister Donna Butler thought about many things, including the trees. This year, I thought about Labor Day in a way I never have before. As usual, I thanked God for the meaningful work I have been able to do throughout my life. As usual, I also reflected on those less privileged. There are so many justice issues that come to mind in regard to workers’ rights. I’m thankful for all the workers who share their gifts and...
Sharing the charism of Providence
...at risk, Helping to build bridges between Western and Eastern churches, Fostering dialogue between the great religions of the descendants of Abraham, Fostering communication and understanding among all peoples and faiths, Promoting human rights, especially the status of women, Working for anti-slavery and anti-trafficking, Striving to provide clean and safe water at an affordable price, and Working for peace. Two examples of how they are working toward these goals: The Denmark Priories raised large sums of money that enabled them...
A Haunting Desert Experience
...members, veterans and human rights activists gathered near the Eloy Detention Center. Eloy in Pinella County, Ariz., is set in the middle of the desert between Phoenix and Tucson – hundreds of miles from the closest town. Undeterred by the 90-plus degree heat and desert dust, people arrived early and stood for hours in front of a truck that was turned into the make-shift stage where we listened to migrants and their allies who spoke of the connection between U.S....
Blessed and encouraged to act justly, love tenderly
...and several other employees witnessed men being fired and new men hired, they realized that the company was being unjust because newer employees without seniority meant the company reduced its payroll. They were also aware that safety precautions were not being followed. This small group of men decided that a union was necessary to protect workers’ rights. I remember my dad standing at a mirror practicing the talk he was giving at a Union meeting. Due to their efforts, the Harvester became unionized in the...