There are times in life when we are called to be bridges, not a great monument spanning a distance and carrying loads of heavy traffic but a simple bridge to help one person from here to there, over some difficulty...

This is what the experience of three weeks in Korea has meant to me. It was a moment to take off my shoes, to enter into the Korean way of being at home, in slippers, leaving the “outside” shoes in a cupboard in the hall.

When Sister Mary Pat White and Sacred Heart Associate Kristi Laughlin left California in mid-June for a post-9/11 journey to Afghanistan, they wanted to bring to the people of that country a message of reconciliation, peace and hope. "What I found was a people who had incorporated reconciliation into the very fiber of their hope for a healed, safe and prosperous Afghanistan,” Sister White said in an interview after her return. “I met a people working peacefully with a courage that outstrips anything I could ever have conceived of."