"Walking the Good Red Road: Nicholas Black Elk's Journey to Sainthood" is a documentary about the man who may become the second Native American and first male American Indian to be canonized a saint.

The 45-year-old American priest has been quarantined for two months with the Jesuit Curia in Rome, where he was assigned in 2018 to bring his tech know-how to the new evangelization.

Sr. Tesa Fitzgerald and her community of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, New York, started a home for children of incarcerated mothers 40 years ago. Today, Hour Children provides prison visits for children, transitional housing, a food pantry, an infant nursery and, importantly, mentoring for prisoners' children and employment training for women who have left prison.

Oil industry pollution and deforestation are serious, Bishop Ernest Obodo told EarthBeat. But the migration of Nigeria's young, risking trafficking and death to escape poverty, is the local church's most pressing concern.

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