Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance who just returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the JPIC blog. This is the third entry of the series. Her journey continues…. Having arrived in Quito one day early to acclimatize to the altitude, […]
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From Sister Kathleen Ryan, SND: For the next several weeks, we welcome Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance who just returned from Amazon Rainforest as the guest writer of the JPIC blog. This is the second entry of the series. Her journey continues…. […]
From Sister Kathleen Ryan, SND: Welcome back to the Sisters of Notre Dame Living Justly blog. This year we are going to have multiple writers contributing to the blog. For the next several weeks, Sister Mary Beth Gray, a trained Awakening the Dreamer and Wake Up (for young adults) facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance just returned from […]
It’s been called the greatest anti-poverty program of our day. To put a little extra money in the pockets of working people is the goal of the Earned Income Credit (EIC). This federal tax credit reduces the tax burden on low or moderate income workers in America. The EIC is commonly called “the working family’s […]
My community gave me a great gift when they asked me to write this blog. 18 years of writing a column for the diocesan Catholic newspaper should have been enough preparation to write a message to the readers about social justice and working for peace. It was– until Sandy Hook. For the past several days […]
“Come, they told me. A newborn king to see. Our finest gifts we bring. To lay before the king..So to honor him. When we come.” (Lyrics from the Christmas Carol, The Little Drummer Boy) Most of us have our favorite Christmas carol. The Little Drummer Boy is mine. The song invites me to the birth. […]
It was a night like any other in San Salvador in 1980. The Cleveland mission team working in LaLibertad was well aware of the dangers involved in staying in the war-torn county. Lay missionary Jean Donovan knew particularly well the danger she was in. A few weeks earlier she wrote to her friend: “The Peace Corps […]
Notre Dame Sister Kathleen Ryan is the Director of the Diocese of Cleveland Social Action Office. She is responsible for creating and implementing programs and pursuing legislative advocacy for peace, social and economic justice. She is beginning her 25th year at Catholic Charities and the diocese after a nineteen year teaching career. She recently was named Coordinator of the Sisters of Norte Dame, Chardon, OH, Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation Committee. 
The Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio, belong to an international congregation of more than two thousand apostolic women religious. We are one in mind and one in heart for the transformation of the world in Christ. 