“Cornerstones: Sacred Stories of LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions,” edited by Ish Ruiz and Mark Guevarra and published last year by New Ways Ministry, is an anthology of personal narratives.
In the beautiful tropical forests of northwestern Panama, Sister Edith González and I have walked alongside the Ngäbe inidigenous people embracing the Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy and the call of Pope Francis to care for the earth.
It began with an email in early 2015 from a local community organizer, a member of the Disciples of Christ, with whom I’d worked over the years. It posed the question: “How are you Catholics getting ready for the Pope’s encyclical on the environment?”