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Never consent to take our books
...SP-ology. Yes, it was idleness before the internet was invented that led to this reading binge, but the stories kept me reading. These women were amazing! They served in several wars. They were held in internment camps. They founded another order in Taiwan. They worked for Civil Rights. They were environmentalists from the very beginning. They survived prejudice, storms, fire and famine. And they were still doing it. The blog post author enjoys a break with her copy of Journals...
Warning, this album may contain photos of sunbathing nuns
...Lake in the 1980s. The label on this photo on the scrapbook album: HATS OFF TO THE CREW This handsome crew spent a hot August 15, 1981 seeding the slopes after the enlargement project. Seated on the hay: Jeanne Knoerle, Ruth Eileen Dwyer. Standing left to right: Bernice Kuper, Leona Walsh, Carol Nolan, Jean Fuqua, grandson of Taylor Ramsey, Taylor and Pete Farmer. In the truck: Mary Stella Morrisey, Agnese Boddington, Emily Walsh, Kathleen Desautels, Jean Karier, Sue Pietrus, Carol...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
Ten of these SPs were interned in the concentration camp during World War II. Though not interned, the two native Chinese Sisters of Providence, Sisters Agnes Joan Li and Bernadette Ma, faced the challenge of carrying on the work of the SP mission in China. Seated from left: Sisters Agnes Loyola Wolf, Marie Patricia Shortall, Marie Gratia Luking, Monica Marie Rigoni and Saint Francis Schultz; standing: Sisters Agnes Joan Li, Mary Liguori Hartigan, Carmel Baker, Theodata Haggerty, Francis De Sales...
Justice on the margins: Providence Associate Maria Price
...the School of the Americas and the United States’ role in supporting repressive regimes in Central and South America,” she said. “I moved to Louisville upon graduation from The Woods and the church I joined, St. William Catholic Community, was a sanctuary church at the time. “We provided support to Central American refugees attempting to escape the violence of their civil wars – wars our government funded, sometimes illegally.” In 1990 and 1991, Maria traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for...
Oral history: Sister Kathleen Desautels, change maker
...Indianapolis, Kak had the opportunity to take a sabbatical to Bolivia. A group of religious were serving there, one of them Sister Gilchrist Conway, SP, who was later killed in a flash flood a year after the visit. The sisters in Bolivia lived in the mountains, with people on the edge of society amidst the civil unrest at the time. Sister Kathleen returned home early because her mother was dying. She said she found out later that her brothers had...
Anna (Tsai Ping) Fan
Sister Anna (Tsai Ping) was born in Hsinchu, Hsien, Taiwan. Sister Anna entered the Congregation on Nov. 10, 2014, from Sacred Heart Church, Chupei, Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan. She professed perpetual vows in 2023. She graduated from Fu Jen University with a degree in religious studies. Currently, she ministers as the warehouse manager of Shuhguana Education and Nursing Institute in Taiwan, which cares for people with severe developmental challenges....
Martha Joseph Wessel
...in residential services at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Currently, Sister Martha ministers in residential services and as the Coordinator of Transportation for the Congregation. Sister Martha said she is the third oldest of 12 living children. “I helped milk cows when I was in junior high and take care of 4,000 chickens when I was in high school,” she said. She added she enjoys watching the Ninja Warriors on television. “I admire the strength and agility of these athletes,” Sister Martha said....
Sister Jody O’Neil accompanies brother on ‘Honor Flight’
...gratitude shown toward him.” “I was in better health when I first started this,” Mike added. “It has declined but I was ready to go. This has been kind of mind-blowing with all the stuff that has been going on.” United States Air Force veteran Gary Lawrence was the bus captain for the flight, which included the Vietnam veterans as well as five veterans of World War II and approximately 15 veterans from the Korean War. Lawrence said he has...
A reflection for Memorial Day 2020
In the early 1960s, Vietnam was becoming a headline story. Communism was on the move, the papers reported, to becoming a threat to America via potential spread to Asia. The U.S.S. Repose, the ship that Sister Pat Linehan served on when she was a nurse. Biases were reported as facts; truth became difficult to harvest. No matter, the Vietnam Conflict became the Vietnam War. Most people who wisely proclaimed opinions on either side regarding war legitimacy, just cause, and right...
Let us be the people Jesus describes, as he sends his disciples out on Mission
...those who experience racism and prejudice in our society. This is an unusual time to be alive – and an unusual time to be renewing vows as a Sister of Providence. A friend recently sent me a Tweet in which someone said “I always wondered what it was like to live during the times of the Civil War, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate and the Dust Bowl. Not all at once, mind you, but ya know …...
I’ll meet you in the field: the spirituality of coming together
...the really active civil rights days and the Vietnam war reaction have I seen people coming together and being active like they are now. Those were the things in my lifetime that got people out of their houses connecting with other people in meetings and groups to educate themselves, standing in the streets, leading, listening to people and what they are experiencing.” There is a field. I’ll meet you there. (Originally published in the Summer 2017 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Witness
...his death-dealing infusion. And I did. I wonder if the warden, the U.S. Marshal, or the executioner were silently praying these words with me? I know Will was. Sister Barbara Battista during a visit with Keith Dwayne Nelson. I met Will near the end of August. We were introduced through Keith Dwayne Nelson, a man whose life was taken on Aug. 28, inside that very same chamber. The Bureau of Prisons conducts these executions in a highly orchestrated manner. Nothing...