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The Blessing of the Nuns on the Bus & Friends
I’m not someone who throws around words like “blessing” very much. But I don’t know what else to call the Nuns on the Bus & Friends “Vote Our Future” tour but a blessing for me. For a brief, wonderful moment, I got to put aside the daily grind of Zoom meetings, doom-scrolling on Twitter, and…
Together, We Can Feed Everyone
The Nuns on the Bus & Friends spent an informative and inspiring morning in Las Vegas at Three Square Food Bank, the only food distribution center in southern Nevada. The scope and scale of this operation is incredible, equating a $14.1 million economic impact last year! Staff and volunteers are committed to eliminating the suffering…
Our Shared, Sacred Responsibilities
The “Vote Our Future” town hall in Las Vegas filled the Cambridge Community Center with the care, candor, and conversation that have become, for me, the hallmark of our Nuns on the Bus & Friends pilgrimage. Bus riders shared about each of the six freedoms animating NETWORK’s advocacy this year, focusing on policies that move…
Sojourner Truth House Shows What We All Need To Thrive
Sojourner Truth House in Gary, Indiana is an excellent example of why we have Nuns on the Bus & Friends. The women of Sojourner Truth House are living out the values of the six freedoms of the “Vote Our Future” tour. They showed us both the need to protect these freedoms and the rewards when…
Sweet Encounters in Phoenix
A community event at an ice cream shop, La Flor de Michoacan in Phoenix, followed our intense morning with the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales. Yes, it was 3 p.m. and 100°, and we couldn’t wait to enjoy the ice cream. But the stop was about much more than a sweet treat. Laura, the owner,…
A Pilgrimage of the Heart to Nogales, Arizona
We arose early—along with the rising sun—to greet the day before us! This morning’s site visit, which was followed by a press conference at Nasir Karam Park, was a reverent pilgrimage, a sacred journey in which the Nuns on the Bus & Friends spent time with those who minister at the border in Nogales, Arizona,…
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…
If 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…
Democracy 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…
Vibrancy, 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…