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By Marie Sagués, OP (San Rafael). “God created the universe and called it ‘good.’ God continues to sustain creation, maintaining the relationship between what is made and God’s provident plan for it. Even if time before the Fall was a state of perfection, every era — imperfect or not — has been true to God’s creative plan.” […]

By Susan Leslie, OP (Peace). “St. Catherine of Siena said, ‘Preach the truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.’ After the onset of the Gulf Wars, a number of women and men religious from the U.S. had the opportunity to travel in delegations to Iraq to be […]

By Joann Blomme, OP (Racine). “Processing my recent 29 years in the Mississippi Delta, I have come to believe that the truth found in the stories of people’s lives here, now, today, made my years there some of the best in my life.”

By Margaret Galiardi, OP (Amityville). “Get out your old state driver’s manual, the one that helped you to prepare for the written driving test before you ever got behind the wheel. Turn to the section on road signs and find the sign for two-way traffic. It may just be what’s needed to help you negotiate […]

By Ruth Droege, OP (San Rafael). “In his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson titled the first chapter ‘The Book of the Grotesque.’ Here, he writes that whenever a person takes truth as his or her own truth, he or she becomes grotesque, and the truth becomes a falsehood […]

By Elaine Jahrsdoerfer, OP (Amityville). “In the early days of television there was a game show called “To Tell the Truth.” In the game, three people claimed to be a certain person, and the panel questioned them to find out which one was telling the truth […]

By Carol Dempsey, OP (Caldwell). “Preaching truth is needed now as much as it was in the time of the ancient biblical prophets who had to deal with many of the same political, social, economic and religious challenges that people face today in a 21st-century […]

By Barbara Kane, OP (Peace). “I’ve been struggling with the concept of truth for some time now. And in today’s political climate, I’m not the only one. Truth seems to be such a dicey concept. Do you remember the dress that some saw as blue and black and others saw as gold and white? It […]

By Pat Farrell, OP (San Rafael). The Global Sisters Report has a new column on Truth. This article is the introduction of the column. “In 2005, Stephen Colbert coined the word truthiness on the first episode of “The Colbert Report,” a U.S. television show that took a humorous look at the […]