Feb 11, 2014
This week’s episode:
“Blessed are They”: St Elizabeth of Portugal
“Among Women” Guest: Lisa Hendey
The 2013 Egan Journalism Fellows at the Media High Council in Kigali, Rwanda.
Credit: Photo by Kim Pozniak/CRS
This week we explore the reflections of author and CatholicMom.com founder Lisa Hendey as she talks about a troubling subject: the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Although this conversation is challenging, in terms of the devastating horror of genocide, and its continued threat in the modern world, it is also one of hope and the grace of forgiveness amid deep sorrow. Lisa explains the opportunity she had as a recipient of the Egan Fellowship from Catholic Relief Services, to visit Rwanda last fall. She details the effect the mission had on her, and the seeming miraculous graces she found there amidst pain and heartbreak.
Links for this episode:
Pat Gohn’s speaking events
A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms by Lisa Hendey
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
World View Wednesdays on Catholic Mom
Read Lisa Hendey’s Rwanda Journal on Catholic Mom (Note: some descriptions and images are rather disturbing, read with care if children are nearby.)
Article: “Rwanda: Forgiveness and Renewal Following 1994 Genocide” by Helen Blakesley
Article: “Love and Forgiveness after Rwanda Genocide” by Lane Hartill
Other shows of related interest:
Catholic TV’s Inter Nos with Lisa Hendey
AW 114: Communing with the Saints, with Lisa Hendey
AW 56: A discussion about The Handbook for Catholic Moms, by Lisa Hendey
AW 27: Lisa Hendey and Pat Gohn discuss their surviving breast cancer
