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This article is reprinted from the fall 2009 issue of HOPE. Editor’s note: In the previous article, “The new cosmology: an evolving universe,” Sister Jeanne Knoerle provides an overview of…

This article is reprinted from the fall 2009 issue of HOPE. How do you picture God? Pray to God? Understand God? Most of us move from childhood to adulthood thinking…

How do you picture God? Pray to God? Understand God? Throughout the centuries, theologians have tried to help us grasp the idea of God. As our knowledge of the world…

In the early 1990s, the Mission Advancement office (OCA) in conjunction with the Eco-justice Task Force published A Guide to the Trees at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. The research and drawings…

Foley Hall — the name conjures up many memories for graduates of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and for countless Sisters of Providence. Foley Hall was known throughout its long history by…

Did you ever wonder what the largest instrument in the world is? You might be thinking a tuba or a grand piano? No, the largest instrument in the world is…

Sisters of Providence were known in my home at a very early age. My parents knew the Duffy, Doherty, McNulty and Patrick families all of whom had daughters who were…

Installation of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin statue at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, June, 2009.

1.) Share a little about yourself. I grew up in northern Wisconsin in a small dairy-farming community right in the heart of “Packer country.” I attended Indiana University in Bloomington…

1.) Share a little about yourself. Life began in Chicago and our family has stayed with our roots, not moving much farther than a few miles from our birthplace. My…

Sister Adelaide Ortegel can’t help herself. Recently, she was showing a couple of teachers how to operate the marionettes that she made so they could learn the techniques. When the…

It was just one line in the “Important Events 1840 to 1972” in the card file in the Sisters of Providence Archives, but it caused a lot of stories to…