"We come to know people when we grieve with them. It is how we can build real solidarity, the kind that points us to the world we want to live in - and our role in fighting for it...America's greatest social movements were rooted in the solidarity that came from shared grieving. First people grieved together. Then they organized together...When people who have no obvious reason to love each other come together to grieve, they can give birth to new relationships, even revolutions."

- Valarie Kaur, How to be brave with your grief

Signs of the Times

• Ignatian Solidarity Network: In Response to the Shooting in Buffalo (statements, articles, resources and prayers)
• Meet Emilce Cuda: Pope Francis' Catholic social teaching expert in the Vatican (NCR, May 17)
• Bishops condemn mass shooting in Buffalo: We must ‘say no to the rotten forces of racism (America, May 16)
• Perhaps being 'spiritual but not religious' isn't such a bad thing (NCR, May 4)