

Catholic Education is very much to the fore in the media in these days. Should the Church be engaged in education or not is the dominant question.

The devastation of the earthquake in Haiti has shocked and saddened us deeply and challenged by the Mercy International Association Vision we ask how can we use our Mercy resources to respond?

The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy has written to Minister Batt O’Keeffe, T.D. advising him of the contribution that the Congregation will make by way of reparation for the suffering of children while in residential institutions within Mercy care.
Nothing could have prepared the rapt audience for the sheer grandeur of the images, words, music and atmosphere that formed a backdrop to a well-organised symposium, entitled ‘Getting to know Catherine McAuley’ which was held on April 25th in Castleblaney

The Congregation Leadership Team visited Mercy Global Concern (MGC) at the United Nations at the end of March 2009.

Hope is our Resurrection gift. May we affirm it in each other and share it in our world as we wish one another a Happy Easter.

Mary Scullion rsm, (Americas), director of Project H.O.M.E., has been nominated as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2009.

'Out of Wonder - the Evolving Story of the Universe' by Nellie McLaughlin rsm has just been reprinted.

Standing at the Mercy Global Concern office window in New York, one can see all 192 flags of the UN. My first search was for the Kenyan flag and I was very excited to see it.

For Hildegard of Bingen, 12th century German Benedictine abbess, the universe is like an egg in the womb of God. MacGillis, an American Dominican is convinced that the current crises of the environment are evidence of an altogether deficient cosmology.