by Kevin Wells | May 8, 2024 | Blog, Children, Sisters
Feature article from National Catholic Register… Tanzania Testing Day: A Child’s Chance to Escape Poverty and Danger Once a year in Tanzania, on its world-forgotten islands, unvisited mountainsides, and in jungles and brush with man-eating animals, the Sisters...
by Kevin Wells | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog, Father Al, Sisters
Today marks the 91st anniversary of an event that led to one of the greatest movements of rescue of the poor, humiliated, and rejected in the history of the world. When the Blessed Mother visited a 13-year-old peasant girl in a tiny frozen-over Belgian village, the...
by Kevin Wells | Dec 13, 2023 | Blog, Father Al
As you read this sentence, a remarkable event is unfolding in a small golfing village named Hobe Sound on the eastern coastline of Florida. Martin Kavanaugh, one of the most influential men in the Professional Golf Association over the past four decades, is learning...
by Kevin Wells | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Father Al
THE PRAYERFUL MYSTIC; OR THE NON-STOP WORKER BOTH/AND Few could pin Fr. Al down. At the tortuous moments just prior to his death from Lou Gehrig’s Disease, he belted out whispered commands to those at his bedside: Please remind the Sisters that they must pray three...
by Kevin Wells | Nov 2, 2023 | Blog, Children, Sisters
With the expanding war, I’ve been thinking about the detonation of bombs into childhoods. In the deep interior of Mexico last week at Villa de los Niños in Guadalajara, Mexico, I walked paths and found myself falling into new friendships with three American...
