The report “Raising Rural Voices: Listening to the Hopes and Hardships of Rural Communities” identifies a series of difficult economic, communication and social challenges facing rural communities.
Social justice lobby’s roundtable tour reveals rural needs
With help of crop-duster, Louisiana parish blesses town with holy water
Working with a local crop-dusting service, a young parishioner, 70 other parishioners and their pastor, Father Matthew Barzare, coordinated to have holy water sprayed Dec. 21 over the unincorporated community and nearby farms about 30 miles southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana.
New documentary looks at immigrants’ integration into U.S. heartland
Filmmakers Michael McGlinn and John Altman set out to, in McGlinn’s words, “elevate the conversation” about immigration with their new film.
Rural women: invaluable and irreplaceable
The following commentary first appeared in the January/February issue of The Harvest, monthly magazine of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana. It was written by Bishop […]