Posts Tagged ‘Nuns on the Bus’
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…
Read MoreA 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,…
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.…
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