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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…
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Sister Maureen Fallon
Published on March 7, 2013
…something was up. When I began the process for entrance into the community, we were in provinces at the time, and the Chicago provincial was Sister Barbara Doherty whom I had for classes three years at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. So my questions and answers to her were very different than if she had been interviewing a stranger. Q. How did you feel when Sister Margaret told you, “You’re going to be a Sister of Providence”? (Laughs) It was fairly unnerving…
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Earth Day Festival & Craft Fair April 28 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Published on April 20, 2018
…walk the nature trail guided by Indiana Forester Stu Haney; tour the organic garden and learn about grafted cucumber research and learn what White Violet Center grows and why. The first 500 get a free tote bag and Trees, Inc. will be giving away hundreds of free saplings. Plan to spend Saturday, April 28, west of the Wabash River! The Earth Day Festival & Craft Fair is from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also on April 28, from 9 a.m….
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Alpacas at the library, food justice and bread
Published on March 16, 2018
…branch at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 19. Candace Minster is looking forward to participating as a panelist. Climate change education Also on Monday, March 19, Lorrie Heber will give a climate change presentation to the Wabash Valley Community Foundation Youth Council. Food Summit postponed *Updated March 19: The Purdue Extension Vigo County Vigo County Food Summit that was to be from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, at the Girl Scout Center (Fairbanks Park), Terre Haute,…
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Sister Nancy Nolan (formerly Sister Jean Paula)
Published on December 20, 2020
…Sisters of Providence as they discerned whether or not to go to Taiwan for ministry and for those Taiwanese sisters to discern about coming to the states. … I would not trade that year for anything. Returning to the United States, Nany served a brief stint as a religion teacher at Mother Theodore Guerin High School before becoming associate administrator and director of religious education for St. Ann Parish in Terre Haute. And though she loved that ministry and the…
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Facing institutionalized racism within myself
Published on June 16, 2020
…more black people than white people. In that moment I first recognized the deeply rooted feelings and thoughts I had, and still have, about black people. I’ve never considered myself racist, I always do my best to treat everyone fairly. But in that moment, I realized that skin color is something I notice and something that matters to me, not in conscious higher-level thought, but almost at an instinctual level. I was aware of that race barrier, and I felt…
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November 19, 2023: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Published on November 16, 2023
Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one — to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But the man who received one…
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Marilyn Marschall Antonik: Breaking Boundaries, Creating Hope
Published on June 1, 2008
…north side. Their volunteer activities include such areas as the environment, peace and justice, tutoring at the Salvation Army, women’s spirituality groups and fair-trade activities. It’s rather ironic that Marilyn and the Congregation took different paths to ultimately reach the same goal: to break boundaries and create hope. Marilyn, not forgetting how the Sisters of Providence influenced her life, has financially given back to the Congregation. She supports various ministries of the sisters and she has also remembered the Congregation…
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Did you know we need volunteer knitters?
Published on July 16, 2015
…debut of the new Linden Leaf Gifts, a wonderful space to find unique items handmade by local artisans and a variety of fair-trade items. It is also now home to White Violet Center for Eco-Justice’s fiber arts items, many made from our very own alpacas. Since moving White Violet Center’s fiber items to Linden Leaf Gifts, sales have gone through the roof! Our hardworking volunteers make us proud. One volunteer, Janice Dukes, is a retired faculty member from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods…