Rose Haven reigns every year on Mother’s Day when it hosts the Reigning Roses Walk in Portland, Oregon. This year was an especially spectacular day for Rose Haven to host its 2nd annual Reigning Roses Walk. The weather was perfect, helping to lure more than 350 participants and volunteers to gather to celebrate special women in their lives. Rebekah Albers, Executive…
Grace Dietrich is from Conklin, Michigan, where she grew up on an apple farm that her father and uncles own. She comes from a large close-knit Catholic family and is the middle child among six. Grace graduated with a Sociology degree from DePaul University, the largest Catholic university in the nation and largest private institution…
Ask CORA kids in the 4th grade what a gizmo is and they’ll tell you it’s generating an interest in the scientific method via outreach (GISMO). What? Let’s take it from the top. GISMO is a program that started in September 2014, when Griselle Morales, Director of Licensed Pre-School and After-School Programs, reached out to…
Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) shapes a prophetic voice for justice. EAD brings together faith-based people from across the U.S. each year to affect change through the legislative process. More than 1,000 people came to EAD April 17-20 to deepen awareness about systems of exploitation and to help one another light fires within themselves to take action…
Good Shepherd National Advocacy Center marched in solidarity yesterday with federal contract workers striking for better pay and a union. Under the leadership of Good Jobs Nation, people rallied for President Obama to direct future service contracts to model employers by executive order. The workers also want $15 an hour and a union. Larry Couch,…
Sister Mary Joy Benson participated in a Quaker-led action to end Mountaintop Removal (MTR) and came away from the experience enlightened and inspired. After reading Sr. Sharon O’Grady’s book review of Father Thomas Berry’s Selected Writings on The Earth Community in the February issue of the Province newsletter Items of Interest, Sr. Mary Joy felt…
