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Leadership Team shares statement on death penalty
...be fair. Since 1977, for example, more than 160 persons have been exonerated while serving time on death row. And evidence shows that more than 40 percent of death row inmates are African American while the general population of the United States is approximately 14 percent African American. No person at the federal level has been executed for 16 years. In fact, the federal government has executed only three people since 1988. Many states are abolishing the death penalty, including...
A lifetime of meeting needs around the world and in our own backyard: Sister Patty Fillenwarth
On a picnic in Arequipa, Peru, in the early 1970s. Sister Patty Fillenwarth at right. Pictured front Father John Foley, SJ., back left to right, Sisters Florence Norton and Betty Smigla, Michael O’Malley (Peace Corps) Editor’s note: Sister Patty Fillenwarth died Jan. 7, 2020 at the age of 79. She is greatly missed. When Patty Fillenwarth (formerly Sister Joseph Monica) was in fifth grade, the missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa — the White Sisters — visited her classroom...
Facing institutionalized racism within myself
...traders brought over a boatload of Africans to work as slaves. As demand grew, they brought more and more Africans. Socially, this did something important. It established the relationship between black and white as that of slave and master. This level of slavery required dehumanization, or the viewing of another human being as less than human. White people had to tell themselves that the slaves they forced to tend their lands were less than human, less than them, less in...
HOPE winter 2022 — Creating space for new light
...in which we may be complicit with racist attitudes and actions … Looking racism in the eye: there is still much to do My home town was a small city that did not permit African-Americans within the city limits after dark. The deed to our house did not allow us to sell our house to anyone of African-American descent. Prayer: a Sisters of Providence ministry dear to the heart “The Sisters are my go to pray-ers! I am a firm...
Sister Joan Matthews (formerly Sister Ignatius)
...as Cor Unum. That ministry, as well as serving in a high school for girls, most of whom were African American, from 1984-89 significantly impacted Sister Joan’s life. Of the teaching experience she said: “It showed me how much I needed to grow to begin to understand the African American picture. This became more real as I shared in the efforts to keep the hierarchy from demolishing our school and merging us with a distant high school. Sadly, we lost...
HOPE summer 2022 — Moving forward together
...we believe that special care for those with cognitive changes is one such ministry, before we move forward, we want to make sure that we have the various resources needed to provide quality care to those who come to us and the capacity to sustain that ministry into the future. Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community “It’s been a wonderful journey. I love the people. I’ve been so blessed by the African American community. Having...
Reflections for the Silver Jubilee of Sister Evelyn Ovalles
...of the people there. What happened to your seemingly straight path? A New Ministry I consider it God’s jubilee gift to you that within the last few weeks you have been offered and accepted a position as the pastoral associate at St. Katharine Drexel Parish of Chicago at the St. Ailbe Catholic Church Site, a predominantly African-American community on Chicago’s southeast side. Both Sisters Evelyn and Judy Birgen call this parish home. The parishes’ long name offers some clue as...
Oral history: Sister Joann Quinkert the justice advocate
...old Model T truck, bought fruit and vegetables from local farmers and peddled them on two routes. At the end of every week, he took what he had left to the African American community not far from their home. Joann’s parents were Marguerite and John Quinkert. John was known as ‘Molly,’ an Irish term of endearment for ‘honey,’ his whole life. Joann’s parents were known as the ‘M & M’s’. Sister Joann grew up in a devout, close-knit Catholic family....
Oral History: Sister Dorothy Gartland
...but not arrested. She demonstrated in protest at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning in Georgia annually. Demonstrated against South African apartheid at the South African Embassy. There were demonstrations and protests at the Shell Oil Company building. “Die-ins” at federal buildings and offices, refusing to leave by sitting or lying on the floor when it was time for the building to close, sometimes being rolled out of the building by security personnel while seated in a chair....
Sister Susan Paweski
...countries in Africa during a civil war!) I returned to the United States and worked for an insurance company. Though I was the supervisor of the underwriting department, I could not envision staying one more minute than I had to, so I enrolled in Mundelein College’s new Weekend College program. I leapt at the chance of earning bachelor’s degree in English/Communications while working. I was hungry to learn, and the adult learning model was more than I could have expected....
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Winifred Patrice O’Donovan, SP
...able to glean these additional facts about Sister Winifred Patrice. Sister Winifred Patrice, Bridget O’Donovan, was born in County Cork, Ireland, on Aug. 15, 1878, to Mary O’Mahoney and John O’Donovan. She had three sisters: Mother Marie Finbar, a Franciscan Sister of Mary who had spent 13 years as a missionary in Africa, Sister Francis Assisi, SP, and a married sister, Mrs. L. Moylan, who remained in County Cork, Ireland. Sister Winifred Patrice left Ireland in April 1903, at the...
Political Engagement Committee: Our Platform
...in African cities: Scope, potentiality and challenges. (Development Southern Africa), Elmond Bandauko, Elias Maxhindu, Ndarova Audrey Kwangwama, Godfery Chikowore, 2016 The other infrastructure gap: Sustainability – human rights and environmental perspectives. (United Nations Human Rights), Heinrich Boll Stiftung, 2018 4. We support caring for the Earth through agriculture by: Reducing tillage, Expanding crop rotations, Planting cover crops, Reintegrating livestock into crop production systems, and Capturing the excess carbon generated by other related industries Supporting Articles Maintain healthy soil with crop...