Bus rider blogs
Sojourner Truth House Shows What We All Need To Thrive
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 freedoms and the rewards when…
Read MoreSweet Encounters in Phoenix
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 sweet treat. Laura, the owner,…
Read MoreA Pilgrimage of the Heart to Nogales, Arizona
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 the border in Nogales, Arizona,…
Read MoreCircle Resource Center Shares the Joy of the Gospel
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 us. Vote Our Future…
Read MoreIf it’s Hopeful, it Must Be Mount Mary
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 up to Wisconsin). Thank God…
Read MoreDemocracy at Stake: Dispatch from the Nuns on the Bus & Friends
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 the upcoming election. One woman, her voice…
Read MoreVibrancy, Not Fragility, at Detroit Town Hall
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 leg of the Nuns on…
Read MoreA Breach, a Bridge, and a Bus
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 have seen this effect in…
Read MoreClevelanders Affirm Shared Values and Vision in Town Hall
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. I could almost feel…
Read MorePittsburgh Rally Recalls Sacrifices Families Make for Each Other
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., and I never planned to get on one again.…
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