by Paul Gesterling | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog, Children
n such a tumultuous year, it can be hard to think about needs beyond your front door or beyond your community. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, this crisis is hitting the poor the hardest. Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in...
by Paul Gesterling | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog, Children
Today is World Children’s Day, first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day. It is celebrated on November 20 each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare. This year, World Children’s Day...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Father Al, Sisters
I imagine a sadness that magazine writers, biographers, and authors have each shared is the discarding of veritable gold gathered from interviews. Often, because anecdotes, quotes, or stories don’t match up with written narratives, the profound stories shared by those...
by The Sisters of Mary | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog, Video
Josephine’s Story A graduate from the Philippines shares her story of how education through The Sisters of Mary has transformed her...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
To understand the missionary heart of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, one should come to know of the Belgian who helped to inflame it – Chinese missionary, Fr. Vincent Lebbe. “Lebbe stories” had been passed like cups of sugar from one neighbor down to the next within the...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
One of the treasures of having researched the life of Fr. Al for the biography I’ve been working on is the discovery of the many saints who’ve helped to engineer him. He drew from a wide and colorful palette of personalities, nationalities, and charisms. I found that...
