Working for a Better World. Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo

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      Working for a Better World

      Working For a Better World

       Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo

      CEO and President, Catholic Relief Services

      Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division

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      Huntington, Indiana 46750

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      ISBN 978-1-61278-814-2 (Inventory No. T1620)

      eISBN: 978-1-61278-374-1

      LCCN: 2015931310

      Cover design: John Lucas

      Cover image: Shutterstock

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

       FOREWORD

      By Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.

       Part I: God Has Always Been There

       CHAPTER ONE

       “… I Would Get Down on My Knees and Pray”

       CHAPTER TWO

       “… Not Pros and Cons, but Joy and Fears”

       CHAPTER THREE

       The Fears Came First

       CHAPTER FOUR

       Joy: A Journey

       CHAPTER FIVE

       The Maryknoll Sisters

       CHAPTER SIX

       Letting Go: From Hong Kong to America

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       From Notre Dame to CRS

       Part II: God Sends Us to Neighbors

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       Where Miracles Happen

       CHAPTER NINE

       God Chooses the Weak

       CHAPTER TEN

       Lead, Kindly Light

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       A Bountiful God

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       Entertaining Angels

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       “When I Was Hungry…”

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       The Lazarus Effect

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       Full Circle

       AFTERWORD

      By Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.

       NOTES

      Foreword

       By Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.

      Meet my friend. Dr. Carolyn Woo makes that easy as she visits us in the pages of her new book, Working for a Better World. It is difficult to be totally objective about one’s friends, and I don’t claim to be. I do want you to get to know Carolyn Woo, though, because she is courageous, competent, and committed. She is clearly led by the Holy Spirit: mind and heart. Meet a daughter, sibling, wife, and mother: a person who lives what she teaches and in the process has come to see all as neighbor.

      When communism took over mainland China, Carolyn Woo’s parents left their ancestral homes for Hong Kong. Thus, she identifies with refugees because her family was displaced and had to start over. The efforts of Carolyn’s family and nanny were complemented by her education with the Maryknoll