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A Note from Sister Barbara, July 10, 2024
Published on July 10, 2024
…be like selling “the air, the sea and the earth.” The air, sea, and the earth were recognized as gifts of the Great Spirit belonging to all peoples: one tribe did not “own” the land…or the air or the sea. All tribes lived with inborn access to the land, and all tribes must agree to the sale. Tecumseh was a man of righteousness and fairness. He was brave and spoke out against injustice. When he met with the territorial governor…
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A reflection for the Season of Creation
Published on September 17, 2024
…cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help …” But alas, I was wrong and Lisa was right! Why now? Hmmm, I thought. Why now? And then I had a moment of insight! Maybe this is a PERFECT reading for this Season of Creation! After all, when we consider the climate crisis, is it not fair to say that planet Earth is suffering its own…
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Fair Food Campaign: The Super Bowl of Workers’ Rights
Published on February 17, 2016
While sports heroes like Peyton Manning draw enormous media attention, there’s other more hidden, but extraordinary significant human victories in our world to celebrate. Often, we encounter more tragic happenings in the daily news than our hearts can bear. We wonder if it is really possible to make a difference in this world. Should we even try? Human trafficking is one of those issues that proves so difficult to change, but the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Campaign for Fair Food…
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Congregation supports faith leaders’ election integrity statement
Published on October 23, 2020
We support the many faith leaders from across the country who have signed this statement regarding the integrity, safety, and fairness in the 2020 election from American Friends Service Committee, which was posted on October 12, 2020. Here is the statement: Faith Leaders’ Statement on Integrity, Safety, and Fairness in the 2020 U.S. Election Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity! – Job 31:6 O you who believe! Fear God, and be with…
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Farmworkers, consumers declare national boycott of Wendy’s
Published on March 9, 2016
The coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has been persistently urging Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Campaign. This agreement would require that the human rights of farmworkers who pick tomatoes in Florida would be protected. The Fair Food Campaign is a highly respected, well monitored program, aimed at stopping human trafficking and advancing human rights. Despite the persistent efforts of the CIW and consumers informing Wendy’s of their expectations, the fast-food restaurant has absolutely refused to become a socially responsible…
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Throwback Thursday: Remembering a Renaissance Faire and a ‘pair-o’-docs’
Published on June 9, 2016
…for teaching, scholarship and service. The award was established in honor of Sister Mary Joseph. The second photo we have here was taken in 1989 during the college Renaissance Faire. Sister Rosemary donned the part of Queen Elizabeth and is standing next to then-General Superior Sister Nancy Nolan. According to the Archives Department, the Renaissance Faire took place for a decade and began under the leadership of Sister Jeanne Knoerle, who died in 2013 at the age of 85. Sister…
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Join the Return to Human Rights Tour March 16-29
Published on February 27, 2017
“The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program is a unique partnership among farmers, farm workers and retail food companies that ensures humane wages and working conditions for the workers who pick fruits and vegetables on participating farms.” —– From the Coalition of Immokalee Workers For several years, The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has been pleading to no avail with fast food chain restaurant Wendy’s to join their fair food program. In fact, Wendy’s stopped purchasing tomatoes in the…
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Journals and Letters week 25: Making fair progress
Published on March 27, 2021
…(Merriam-Webster Dictionary) The end of sorrow-burdened years Establishing the Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was just one of the many accomplishments of the the founding sisters. From the children’s book “Saint Theodora and her Promise to God” Why spend time with the word vicissitude? The portion of the “Journals and Letters” we’ve read together for this week begins: “Given the vicissitudes of the sorrow-burdened years, the institution at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods had been making fair progress.” The difficulties of “the sorrow-burdened” years…
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Leadership Team shares statement on death penalty
Published on July 30, 2019
…Sisters Mary Beth Klingel, Jeanne Hagelskamp and Jenny Howard, General Councilors References: New Low of 49 % in U.S. Say Death Penalty Applied Fairly (Gallup – News, October 2018) – https://news.gallup.com/poll/243794/new-low-say-death-penalty-applied-fairly.aspx Catholic Mobilizing Network Condemns Resumption of Federal Executions (Catholic Mobilizing Network – News Release, July 25, 2019) – https://catholicsmobilizing.org/in-the-news/catholic-mobilizing-network-condemns-resumption-federal-executions Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment (National Catholic Reporter – October 23, 2014) – https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-francis-calls-abolishing-death-penalty-and-life-imprisonment Federal Capital Habeas Project https://2255.capdefnet.org/General-Statistics/Federal-Death-Row-Population-By-Race U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045218…
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The life of Eleanor Bailly (Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly)
Published on April 20, 2018
Editor’s Note: This feature was written by Paul Beel, a former staff member in the Mission Advancement office and an admirer of Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly. Mass was often held at the Bailly Homestead near Chesterton, Ind. Childhood of Eleanor Bailly Eleanor Cecilia Baily was born on June 2, 1815, to Joseph and Marie Bailly. Joseph was a very successful French-Canadian fur-trader. He established a trading post near present-day Porter County in Indiana, near the town of Chesterton. This made…
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Woodland Inn turns 120
Published on June 13, 2014
…and twelve bedrooms on the second floor and three bathrooms and ten bedrooms on the third. Each room differs in size and shape from every other one. The Woodland Inn as it looks today. The Inn is a three-storied red brick contrasting with the buff or cream brick used in most of the later structures. It was designed for carriage trade with porte-cochere, while its porch on the west afforded visitors the opportunity to sit outside in the shade during…
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Celebrating the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita
Published on February 8, 2018
…sexual abuses that followed her kidnapping by Arab slave traders around the age of 8, this girl could not recall her real name. Bakhita was a name given to her by one of her many slave owners. The name meant “lucky” or “fortunate one,” another abuse of mockery, perhaps, in the midst of horror. Bakhita was sold many times during her years of brutal slavery. Some of her treatment included “scarification and tattooing.” This treatment consisted of deeply cut wounds…