| 'Single-mindedly staying the
community'
By ARTHUR JONES
NCR Staff
Sr. Kristin Funari has given the last two decades to homeless and
abused women.
What drives her?
Passion, she said.
What is she passionate about?
"I'm passionate about the gospels. Passionate about the economy. I
want to get more passionate about the poor. Get more passionate about the
violence in our cities in the United States and say what can we do to change
that. What can we do with the record industry, with the dirty cops, this drug
question that I'm choking on every day -- I've known for 20 years where those
drugs come from and who protects that.
"I get passionate about not being able to wrap myself around the
truth that I know and others know and do something about it.
"I get passionate about the suffering that's caused by all that
and then the wrong people who are blamed.
"Passionate about the beatitudes. Passionate about the truth being
the way. None of us have the total truth.
"Passionate about us being able to peel that apart together and
break it open together and single-mindedly staying in community, pursuing those
gospel truths. That's what makes my passion.
"I get passionate when I see real struggle around who we say we
are or want to be."
National Catholic Reporter, November 15,
1996
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