 We, the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, agonize over the
sufferings of our sisters and brothers around the world and for Earth herself.
We acknowledge our involvement in this global suffering and embrace our need
for personal conversion even as we work with others to transform unjust systems
and exploitative patterns of behavior.
We undertake the work of justice in the light of Catholic
social teaching and our Constitutions, Direction Statement, and especially our Critical Concerns,
which call us "...to intensify our
responses to critical needs of our times which continue to call us to
conversion:
- to deepen
and assimilate more consciously the practice of nonviolence as an integral aspect of the charism of
mercy;
- to deepen our response to the unrecognized and
unreconciled racism, past and
present, within our community;
- to reverence Earth and work more effectively toward the sustainability of
life and toward universal recognition of the fundamental right to water;
- to continue to embrace our particular concern
for women;
- and to stand in solidarity with immigrants..."
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