Our Lady of Grace Village – Newark, Delaware Built on the site of a former Felician orphanage, Our Lady of Grace Village is a 60-unit affordable housing community serving households with incomes at or below 60% of the area median income. Twelve units are handicapped accessible and six are designated for special populations, including persons with disabilities. (Applications for…
Franciscan Easter 2021
Franciscan Media Francis described his life before his conversion as “When I was in sin.” St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, a part of which is always read at the Easter Vigil, reminds us that we died with Christ in our baptism and so will rise with him in the resurrection. We have journeyed…
Sister Dianna Ortiz Ursuline Sister of Mount St. Joseph,
Dianna Ortiz, nun who told of brutal abduction by Guatemalan military, dies at 62 Settling in Washington, Sister Ortiz became a prominent advocate of survivors of state-sanctioned violence and helped campaign to expose classified U.S. documents showing American links to human-rights abuses in Guatemala. As a plaintiff in a lawsuit against a Guatemalan defense minister,…