May – June 2020 Issue
Leading young people to serve
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: A young Hispanic lay leader in California offers her work and life to the service of the Church Brenda Noriega considers herself doubly blessed. She got to meet with Pope Francis—twice! The first time was at a private lunch at World Youth Day in Panama. The second was at an audience with the Holy Father at the Vatican after the Synod of...
Missioner Tales May/June 2020
Teaching in the altiplano of Peru (at 13,000 feet above sea level) many years ago, I found myself in a unique situation. The school, which was just for girls, was a one-room building made of adobe with a corrugated tin roof. There were about six rows of worn wooden desks with attached benches. They were lined up three in a row from wall to wall, with no...