Chalco’s Gift of Tears
“Non sum ego eram”- I am not that I was Fr. Bob Golas had been a priest for nearly two decades in the Archdiocese of Washington when something foreign – something uncontrollable – began to materialize in his body this past winter. It came on abruptly. Those in his...
The Sacred, Never-Ending Pilgrimage of Our Lives
Walking to Guadalupe CHALCO – Fr. Dan Leary, five sisters from the Sisters of Mary community, teachers, employees, and more than 170 graduates from Boystown and Girlstown communities felt the need to keep things light on their 25-mile walking pilgrimage to the...
Catholic Schools Week and Serving the Poor
Needy’s Story This is Needy’s story in her own words: “My first memories began at the age of four when I saw how my father hit my mother. She did not defend herself. At the age of six I was in kindergarten; one day they brought me home from school because my father...
The Radical Faith of a Saint in Collapse
All to Bring the Poor to Christ Which was the most difficult for Washington D.C. native Venerable Aloysius Schwartz: a) Become the first American seminarian in the history of Maryknoll formation to leave (he considered their missionary work too comfortable) and join...