.Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks to graduates at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., May 1, 2021. (CNS photo/BFA Commercial Photography via University of St. Francis)
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNS) The head of the Vatican s justice, peace and human development efforts urged over 700 graduates of the University of St. Francis to follow the example of their school s namesake and the advice of the pope who shares his name. Consider what impact you make in life, said Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He urged graduates to be sowers of hope in his May 1 address at the commencement ceremony at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne.
Cardinal Turkson urges graduates to impact troubled world
Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks to graduates at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., May 1, 2021. (CNS photo/BFA Commercial Photography via University of St. Francis)
By Don Clemmer • Catholic News Service • Posted May 3, 2021
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNS) The head of the Vatican’s justice, peace and human development efforts urged over 700 graduates of the University of St. Francis to follow the example of their school’s namesake and the advice of the pope who shares his name.
“Consider what impact you make in life,” said Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He urged graduates to be “sowers of hope” in his May 1 address at the commencement ceremony at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne.
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Masanga, a hilly, isolated area in northwestern Tanzania has eight villages that mostly depended on unprotected springs for their water, shared with livestock. The Daughters of Charity arrived in 2007 and started a health center, St. Catherine’s School, a vocational training center, orphanage and more. These facilities and programs relied on rain water catchments or a 10-year-old borehole, but there were often shortages, especially in the dry season. (Courtesy of the Daughters of Charity)
As my office has responded to request after request to find funds to respond to the need for water in clinics, hospitals and schools, I have been stunned by the lack of access to this most basic resource in so many locations around the world. Children scooping up muddy water to carry to their families to drink is cringe-worthy enough, but internationally, one in four health care facilities do not have sufficient water, sanitation or hygiene resources. This puts more than 1.8 bil
Members of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe tend to a COVID-19 patient in the sisters health service. (Courtesy of the International Union of Superiors General)
In the face of a global health pandemic that is worsening in some countries, it is up to the universal church and Catholic sisters to continue and intensify efforts to get people vaccinated, says a sister heading the health task force for the Vatican COVID-19 Commission.
During an April 27 webinar sponsored by the Rome-based International Union of Superiors General (UISG), Sr. Carol Keehan of the Daughters of Charity said the health task force believes those who daily serve people who live in poverty and who have their trust are the best hope for safe and fair distribution of vaccines as well as the best tool for convincing people of the safety and importance of taking the vaccines.