Dare to Care!

Dare to Care - March 24th 2023

As we begin spring, consider composting your food and lawn waste at home or where compostable waste is collected, such as neighborhood Farmer’s Markets. Also, learn about Ertha Pascal-Trouilot’s impact in Haiti, who was Haiti’s first female president.

Dare to Care - March 17th 2023

This week we learn about definitions around the language of immigration and learn about the 10th Anniversary of the election of Pope Francis and his global mission and the universal message of his encyclical Fratelli tutti.

Dare to Care - March 10th 2023

Read Laudato Si and reflect, learn about promoting Justice for immigrants, learn about Ending Human trafficking's and more in this weeks Dare to Care bulletin.

Dare to Care - March 3rd 2023

Globally, 1 in 3 girls have experienced violence by the age of 18. Is it possible to prevent violence against women and girls and leave no one behind in difficult times?

Dare to Care - February 24th 2023

Beyond Borders and Members of the AM Province have been advocating for Haiti with the US Government in a number of ways, this and more in this weeks Dare to Care!

Dare to Care - February 17th 2023

You are invited to join the Dismantling Racism committee in a series of video presentations and group discussions on “Breaking Open the Sin of Racism”. The series will take place on five Mondays in Lent from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. ET. The dates are March 6, 13, 20, 27 and April 3.

Dare to Care - February 10th 2023

" It can be said that many problems of today’s world stem from the tendency, at times unconscious, to make the method and aims of science and technology an epistemological paradigm which shapes the lives of individuals and the workings of society."

Dare to Care - February 3rd 2023

The International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking takes place every year on February 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, the Sudanese nun who as a child experienced being kidnapped and enslaved and has become the universal symbol of the Church's commitment against trafficking.

Dare to Care - January 26th 2023

This week in Dare to Care; learn more about immigration and Title 42, find out about upcoming webinars on Eco-spirituality, celebrate Maryland's first Black governor, and sadly, read about the increasing chaos in Haiti.

Dare to Care - January 20th 2023

This week, read out Laudato Si Reflection, learn more about topics like immigration and Title 42, Eco-spirituality, celebrate Maryland's first Black governor, and consider the increasing chaos in Haiti.

Dare to Care - January 13th 2023

The 117th U.S. Congress adjourned without passing any of the immigration bills(link is external) that SSND was monitoring this past year including, the Dream and Promise Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and the Afghan Adjustment Act. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court prevented the Biden administration from ending Title 42.

Dare to Care - Dec 20th 2022

This month, Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley were posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal For Advancing Racial Justice. Emmett Till’s death was not vindicated by the courts, nor has it been in the history books of the United States. We can only hope that this Gold Medal honor and the telling of their story through a newly released mainstream movie 'Till'(link is external), will motivate people to work to dismantle racism.

Dare to Care - Dec 16th 2022

Two years ago the faculty at NDMU created a Faculty Anti-Racism Committee (ARC). One of its first accomplishments was the development of and consensus building around an anti-racism statement. At the same time, working in subcommittees, members of the ARC studied and made recommendations in the areas of culture, hiring practices, and anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy. We recommended the development of a year-long professional development experience for faculty.

Dare to Care - December 9th 2022

“Right now we are on this trajectory of losing one million of our 8 million species on this planet. That’s clearly not a trajectory we want to be on. We need to change the actions that we need to do as human beings: we need to eat and live in ways that are nature positive.”

Dare to Care - November 18th 2022

COP27 is scheduled to wrap up in November 19th, but countries remain divided on several significant issues including ‘loss and damage’, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday, urging parties to rise to the urgency of the moment and agree on real solutions to solve the greatest challenge facing humanity.

Dare to Care - November 11th 2022

Laudato Si' Quote of the Week: #98 Jesus lived in full harmony with creation, and others were amazed: “What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?” (Mt 8:27).

Dare to Care - Nov 4th 2022

Laudato Si Reflection 97. The Lord was able to invite others to be attentive to the beauty that there is in the world because he himself was in constant touch with nature, lending it an attention full of fondness and wonder.

Dare to Care - Oct 28th 2022

96. Jesus took up the biblical faith in God the Creator, emphasizing a fundamental truth: God is Father (cf. Mt 11:25).

Dare to Care - October 14th 2022

94. The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). “He himself made both small and great” (Wis 6:7), and “he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45).

Dare to Care - October 7 2022

93. Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone.

Dare to Care - Sept 30th 2022

92. Moreover, when our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one.

Dare to Care - September 23rd 2022

91. A sense of deep communion with the rest of nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness, compassion and concern for our fellow human beings. It is clearly inconsistent to combat trafficking in endangered species while remaining completely indifferent to human trafficking, unconcerned about the poor, or undertaking to destroy another human being deemed unwanted.

Dare of Care - September 16th 2022

90. This is not to put all living beings on the same level nor to deprive human beings of their unique worth and the tremendous responsibility it entails.