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...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Children
The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 15, 2023 | Blog, Father Al
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” As the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus approaches, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children)...
by Kevin Wells | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog, Children, Sisters
The driver steered his car down a backcountry road that split canopies of great oaks, whose moss dripped from its long branches like Louisiana tinsel. The hardly-traveled road is a place where hawks soar over towering tree tops and deer and wild boar roam unencumbered...
by Kevin Wells | May 4, 2023 | Blog, Sisters
The Sisters of Mary’s allegiance to five vows has made them one of the hardest-working religious communities in the world. True Motherhood Some thirty-three years ago, a young religious sister named Sr. Margie Cheong would join in the evening twilight with Venerable...
