Today’s Chance to Do a Work of Mercy

You can help Sr. Julia get kids an education:Maryknoll Sister Julia Shideler has been teaching in the small Pacific island nation for the past six years. As she watched her students graduate from high school — a significant accomplishment for children of subsistence farmers — she knew that even for the brightest, college was out of reach for their impoverished families.So the sister, 36, who made her perpetual vows on Sept. 28, has made it her mission to send them to college, one at a time. Then two, then 10.“I would like to have more,” she said.Here’s more on the Nun on the Run for Scholarship Fund.