By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a seminary student in 1995, Tarry-Chard traveled to a conference in South Africa hosted by Desmond Tutu, then archbishop of Cape Town. During a church service, she heard an inner call to help the women and children she encountered in the squalor of the townships....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Alicia Cuaron was a successful corporate executive and prominent Latina leader. Then, after a series of personal crises that profoundly impacted her life, she resigned from the company she founded and became a Franciscan nun. Cuaron was assigned to a Catholic parish...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1960, with two young children in tow, 22-year-old Sara J. Gonzalez fled Cuba for the freedom of the United States. She eventually settled in Atlanta, where in 1978 she opened a small diner serving Cuban food. Her cooking was good, but she knew nothing about running...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Barry Childs left Tanzania, his childhood home, as a college-bound teenager, eager to prepare for a comfortable corporate career. When he returned 35 years later, the African country was a vastly different place. It was 1998. AIDS had orphaned an overwhelming number...
