Archive for 2024
Circle Resource Center Shares the Joy of the Gospel
On Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Nuns on the Bus and Friends left Milwaukee and arrived in Chicago as part of NETWORK’s nonpartisan, nationwide “Vote Our Future” tour. We are calling on Catholics and all people of good will to protect the freedoms that promote a future of flourishing for all of us. Vote Our Future…
Read MoreIf it’s Hopeful, it Must Be Mount Mary
If this is Monday, it must be day 3 of my time with Nuns on the Bus & Friends. If it is evening, I must be in Milwaukee and in the fourth state of the day (Michigan that morning, followed by a stop in Gary, Indiana, then through Illinois and up to Wisconsin). Thank God…
Read MoreDemocracy at Stake: Dispatch from the Nuns on the Bus & Friends
On Monday evening hundreds of people gathered at the Detroit Gesu Catholic Church for a Town Hall with the Nuns on the Bus & Friends – a cross-country bus tour on the theme “Vote Our Future.” They were asked to name out issues most important to them in the upcoming election. One woman, her voice…
Read MoreVibrancy, Not Fragility, at Detroit Town Hall
Vibrancy is the best word to describe the committed and engaged NETWORK Advocates arriving at the Detroit Town Hall. The event, which was held at Gesu Catholic Church, across the street from University of Detroit Mercy, began at 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 6, the second day of the second leg of the Nuns on…
Read MoreA Breach, a Bridge, and a Bus
When nuns speak, people tend to listen. Despite all the ways the moral authority of the church has been tarnished by scandal, hypocrisy, and the resurgence of Christian nationalism, nuns so often speak with a moral clarity and integrity that causes people to sit up and listen more attentively. I have seen this effect in…
Read MoreClevelanders Affirm Shared Values and Vision in Town Hall
Our second full day of Nuns on the Bus & Friends took us to Cleveland for an evening Town Hall at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church on Saturday, October 5. We were pulsing with excitement from the rally earlier in the day at Pittsburgh’s Freedom Corner, a monument to civil rights activism. I could almost feel…
Read MorePittsburgh Rally Recalls Sacrifices Families Make for Each Other
I don’t do buses. Call it the remnants of trauma from having ridden buses from my home in Mt. Vernon, NY, to my undergraduate school in Syracuse, NY. The last time I voluntarily boarded a bus was when I moved from New York to Washington, D.C., and I never planned to get on one again.…
Read MoreThe Bounty of the Lord in New Haven
Yesterday’s psalm resounded in my heart as I prayed it: “I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted and wait for the Lord.” (Ps 27) These words were particularly encouraging to me as a bus rider this year…
Read MoreBaldwin Town Hall Helped People Vision a Better World
Nuns on the Bus & Friends continues to roll along, and on Wednesday evening, we were welcomed for our Town Hall at the First Presbyterian Church of Baldwin, NY by Pastor Russ Roth in his clergy tartan and our partners at SEIU. The table they provided allowed us the opportunity to register people to vote…
Read MoreBrentwood Visit Affirms Our Call to Care for One Another
Day 3 of NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus & Friends tour was an incredible experience filled with the zeal and energy of the Holy Spirit. Our bus arrived in Brentwood, NY for a site visit with New Hour, a ministry founded to provide meaningful support to currently and formerly incarcerated women, their children, and families.…
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