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Writer: Sr. Alice Gerdeman, CDP If this is Monday, it must be day 3 of my time with Nuns on the Bus & Friends. If it is evening, I must be in Milwaukee and in the fourth state of the day (Michigan that morning, followed by a stop in Gary, Indiana, then through Illinois and…

Writer: Sr. Barbara Pfarr, SSND Sojourner Truth House in Gary, Indiana is an excellent example of why we have Nuns on the Bus & Friends. The women of Sojourner Truth House are living out the values of the six freedoms of the “Vote Our Future” tour. They showed us both the need to protect these…

Writer: Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs On Monday evening hundreds of people gathered at the Detroit Gesu Catholic Church for a Town Hall with the Nuns on the Bus & Friends – a cross-country bus tour on the theme “Vote Our Future.” They were asked to name out issues most important to them in…

Writer: Sr. Louise Lears, SC Our second full day of Nuns on the Bus & Friends took us to Cleveland for an evening Town Hall at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church on Saturday, October 5. We were pulsing with excitement from the rally earlier in the day at Pittsburgh’s Freedom Corner, a monument to civil rights activism.…

Writer: Sr. Catherine Darcy, RSM Vibrancy is the best word to describe the committed and engaged NETWORK Advocates arriving at the Detroit Town Hall. The event, which was held at Gesu Catholic Church, across the street from University of Detroit Mercy, began at 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 6, the second day of the second…

Writer: Rev. Adam Taylor, Sojourners  When nuns speak, people tend to listen. Despite all the ways the moral authority of the church has been tarnished by scandal, hypocrisy, and the resurgence of Christian nationalism, nuns so often speak with a moral clarity and integrity that causes people to sit up and listen more attentively.  I…

Writer: Rev. Dr. Leslie Copeland-Tune, National Council of Churches I don’t do buses. Call it the remnants of trauma from having ridden buses from my home in Mt. Vernon, NY, to my undergraduate school in Syracuse, NY. The last time I voluntarily boarded a bus was when I moved from New York to Washington, D.C.,…

Writer: Sr. Romina Sapinoso, SC Yesterday’s psalm resounded in my heart as I prayed it: “I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted and wait for the Lord.” (Ps 27)  These words were particularly encouraging to me as a bus…

Writer: Sr. Catherine Ferguson, SNJM  Nuns on the Bus & Friends continues to roll along, and on Wednesday evening, we were welcomed for our Town Hall at the First Presbyterian Church of Baldwin, NY by Pastor Russ Roth in his clergy tartan and our partners at SEIU. The table they provided allowed us the opportunity…

Writer: Sr. Erin McDonald, CSJ Day 3 of NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus & Friends tour was an incredible experience filled with the zeal and energy of the Holy Spirit.  Our bus arrived in Brentwood, NY for a site visit with New Hour, a ministry founded to provide meaningful support to currently and formerly incarcerated women,…