Author: Dana Robinson

Like many organizations featured in this column, Rachel’s Vineyard has received grants from one of the National Catholic Community Foundation donor-advised funds. The advisor on this fund has done us a great service in introducing us to the powerful witness to compassion and hope this…

Youngsters would consider anyone alive 130 years ago as antediluvian. Even for kids with a fifth-grade awareness of history, the 19th century is no more recent than the ninth. For older folk, though, someone alive in 1879 would have been a contemporary of their grandparents,…

During the second civil war that ravaged the country of Sudan between 1983 and 2003, tens of thousands of boys and girls, especially ones from the predominantly Christian section of Southern Sudan, were displaced or orphaned. Around 20,000 of these boys, most of whom were…

Under the guidance of Bishop Joseph Galante, the Diocese of Camden is infusing new vitality into its 118 parishes. (more…)

Anyone who believes that technology used properly is a gift Providence provides to aid in the advance of the Kingdom will be wondrously impressed by what the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur is doing in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of…

“Hear, Oh Israel” (Dt. 6:4) The oldest and perhaps most effective way of spreading the good news is through the spoken word. Indeed, the concept of ‘Word’ has profound connotations in Christian theology. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Zambia certainly understand this. (more…)

Haiti, so much on our minds today because of its calamitous earthquake, is where the idea was formed. It was while visiting there in 1928 that Dr. Paluel Flagg, an anesthesiologist from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, was so moved by the plight of…

Readers will know that members of most religious orders typically take the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Some of these religious communities embrace additional vows, i.e. for the Trappists that of silence, for the Jesuits that of loyalty to the Pope. For the…

Two millennia ago, Mary and Joseph advanced the Kingdom as they made their arduous journey to Bethlehem in response to an imperial edict mandating a census. There, in that tiny hamlet, finding no available accommodations, they were obliged to seek shelter in a makeshift stable…