Posts by 2024 Nuns on the Bus & Friends Riders

Writer: Ana Garcia-Ashley, Gamaliel The weather in San Francisco was as warm and welcoming as the justice leaders who greeted our Bus Staff, Sisters, partners, riders, and NETWORK teammates on our first stop in the city. Hosted by Mission Action at St. Mary & St. Martha Lutheran Church—formerly known as Dolores Street Community Services—Jackeline Rodriguez…

Writer: Ralph McCloud, Fellow at NETWORK Advocates I was pleased to be able to participate in NETWORK’s 2024 Nuns on the Bus & Friends “Vote Our Future” tour. Obviously, I am not a nun, but I was honored to be among the “friends” as the bus traveled the country lifting important issues and stressing the…

Writer: Amelia Kegan, Friends Committee on National Legislation The Nuns on the Bus & Friends “Vote Our Future” tour has featured many examples of ordinary people doing the extraordinary. One example is the St. Francis Center in Redwood City, California.   St. Francis Center embodies a holistic approach to their work. They have food and clothing…

Writer: Sr. Mũmbi Kĩgũtha, CPPS, Friends in Solidarity Yesterday I got a chance to encounter the sacred reality of following the path laid down by those who went before us: visiting La Paz, the site where César and Helen Chávez, with many other ancestors, lived and worked as they worked to guarantee basic human rights…

Writer: Sr. Andrea Koverman, SC The Nuns on the Bus & Friends spent an informative and inspiring morning in Las Vegas at Three Square Food Bank, the only food distribution center in southern Nevada. The scope and scale of this operation is incredible, equating a $14.1 million economic impact last year! Staff and volunteers are…

Writer: Sr. Deirdre Griffin, SSJ The “Vote Our Future” town hall in Las Vegas filled the Cambridge Community Center with the care, candor, and conversation that have become, for me, the hallmark of our Nuns on the Bus & Friends pilgrimage. Bus riders shared about each of the six freedoms animating NETWORK’s advocacy this year,…

Writer: Sr. Richelle Friedman, PBVM A community event at an ice cream shop, La Flor de Michoacan in Phoenix, followed our intense morning with the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales. Yes, it was 3 p.m. and 100°, and we couldn’t wait to enjoy the ice cream. But the stop was about much more than a…

Writer: Sr. Janet Kinney, CSJ We arose early—along with the rising sun—to greet the day before us! This morning’s site visit, which was followed by a press conference at Nasir Karam Park, was a reverent pilgrimage, a sacred journey in which the Nuns on the Bus & Friends spent time with those who minister at…

Writer: Sarah Christopherson I’m not someone who throws around words like “blessing” very much. But I don’t know what else to call the Nuns on the Bus & Friends “Vote Our Future” tour but a blessing for me. For a brief, wonderful moment, I got to put aside the daily grind of Zoom meetings, doom-scrolling…

Writer: Sr. Sally Duffy, SC On Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Nuns on the Bus and Friends left Milwaukee and arrived in Chicago as part of NETWORK’s nonpartisan, nationwide “Vote Our Future” tour. We are calling on Catholics and all people of good will to protect the freedoms that promote a future of flourishing for all of…