Community Resilience and Empowerment

Envisaginge a synodal journey of community engagement and participatory action at various levels

The Mercy community embraces Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation

The Mercy community celebrated and prayed for the Critical Concern of Earth during this year’s Season of Creation, September 1 to October 4.

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Mercy engages in the Poor People’s Campaign for the Moral March on Washington.

Mercy associate creates extractivism advocacy toolkit.

National declaration of emergency in Bajo Aguán

Mercy sisters and associates in Honduras signed onto a declaration of a state of emergency in a region of the country where armed forces are attacking campesinos defending their land.

Featured Stories

Still strong & hopeful, East Palestine is rising from the ashes
July 8, 2025

There was an air of normalcy as we drove into East Palestine, Ohio. The park was being refurbished and improved. The mayor was recently re-elected. We four pilgrims were greeted by the noon siren that sent workers home for lunch.
Building an interfaith community to put Laudato Si’ into action
April 22, 2025

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?”
This ‘Nun on the Bus’ rides for God’s people & planet
October 4, 2024

I agreed to participate with the “Nuns on the Bus” because the U.S. election on November 5, 2024, is extraordinarily important. I wanted to join other sisters in raising awareness about the issues that Catholic voters and other people of goodwill should consider when casting their ballots. Our country’s future and that of the planet is at stake in this election as never before.