Catholic Campaign for Human Development

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  A Jubilarian Shares Her Story: Sr. Susan Ridley, OP

  September 29, 2017

  “Here I am Lord, send me.” – Isaiah 6:8 I was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 14, 1938. My father, Howell Ridley, a southerner, married my mother, Gladys Boylon, a northerner. My parents, older sister, younger brother, and I grew up in Grand Rapids. From the age of five, Grand Rapids Dominicans have […]

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  Advocating for the Rights of People in Poverty in the United States

  October 2, 2016

  Training teachers and integrating principles of Catholic social teaching into curriculum came easily to justice-minded Dominican Sister Joyce Ann Hertzig. “I was once asked how one could integrate Catholic identity or Catholic Social Teaching into a math class. ‘Develop a story problem about the ratio of food to people in the world,’ I suggested,” says […]