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NEWS: San Antonio joined Compassionate and Sister Cities in prayer and in tears

NEWS: San Antonio joined Compassionate and Sister Cities in prayer and in tears

by Susan | Aug 13, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories

by Elaine Ayala Express-News, 13 August, 2019 Despite a searing noontime sun bearing down on the stone pavement between city council chambers and San Fernando Cathedral, about 100 people gathered Monday for prayer. The service drew Christians, Jews and Muslims. Among...
Father Ron Rolheiser: Christ’s call for true compassion is the goal of all religion

Father Ron Rolheiser: Christ’s call for true compassion is the goal of all religion

by Susan | Aug 11, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories

Published in the Express-News Faith section, 11 August, 2019 Dictionaries define compassion as a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. What does it mean to offer...
Sr. Martha Ann Kirk: A person’s ‘compassion muscle’ can be strengthened

Sr. Martha Ann Kirk: A person’s ‘compassion muscle’ can be strengthened

by Susan | Jul 14, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories

by Sister Martha Ann Kirk “Total Death List Eight” — so read the October 1912 San Antonio Express headline. I was doing research in the Archives of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, when our archivist showed me newspaper clippings describing the fire that...
Nickie Valdez: Affirming the LGBTQI community as children of God

Nickie Valdez: Affirming the LGBTQI community as children of God

by Susan | Jun 30, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories

by Nickie Valdez Dignity USA is a national organization of LGBTQI Catholics and allies primarily concerned with the spirituality of the LGBTQI (lesbian-gay-bisexual-trans-queerintersex) individual. Dignity’s statement of position and purpose declares that we are...
Poorest among us have so little, yet they give so much

Poorest among us have so little, yet they give so much

by Susan | Jun 20, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories

by Patti and Rod Radle Patti and Rod Radle are 2011 San Antonio Peace Laureates and volunteer co-directors of Inner City Development. During our first year in our West Side neighborhood, our income was extremely low. We spent our days working or going to school and...
Hoping for interreligious dialogue to become way of life

Hoping for interreligious dialogue to become way of life

by Susan | May 27, 2019 | essay, inspiration, News Stories

BELIEF by Rajam Ramamurthy, M.D. As a 3-year-old girl in India, I received letters from my father, who was studying mining engineering in the U.S. In one, he described how newspapers were sold in the 1940s by being piled in a corner. He said nobody took one without...
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