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Collaborating against Human Trafficking
...other organizations such as U.S. Catholic Sisters against Human Trafficking (USCSAHT). Currently, USCSAHT is focusing on United States legislation regarding the issue of slavery in supply chains. For example, Kroger and Wendy’s are denying human rights to farmworkers picking the tomatoes that they purchase. Sister Kathleen Desautels recently sent an action alert. Please respond to this current eight-week campaign. Here is additional information on the legislation. Anyone may respond. You do not have to be a Catholic sister to respond....
Sister Tracey Horan recognized by USCCB
Sister Tracey Horan (right) receiving the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s (CCHD) 2017 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership award from CCHD director Ralph McCloud. Photo by Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. Sister of Providence Tracey Horan was recently honored for her work ministering in social justice by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at a reception on Wednesday, June 14. Sister Tracey, a native of Indianapolis and second-year novice with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, received the 2017...
A note from Sister Barbara from her experience in the death chamber
...visit with Keith Dwayne Nelson. The bishops of Indiana, along with numerous other bishops across the U.S., have spoken out against the death penalty. So have religious communities across the country, including my own, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Will mailed his last words to me which, as providence would have it, came the day after he was executed. At a press conference the morning of Sept. 24, when Christopher Vialva would be executed later that day, I...
Stand up for LIFE: Be Complicit No More
...relatives, human and other-than-human alike. To learn from creation and to honor creation. To be one with rather than the one on the top. I am attempting to describe the Sacred Hoop. As a member of the Sacred Hoop, we five-fingered ones have a responsibility to show up for LIFE. Every member has that responsibility, and the companion one which is to not detract or inhibit other members from thriving. All members are important. Need I say that the Hoop...
Sister Emily TeKolste discusses food insecurity
...because its primary purpose is as a tax giveaway to the wealthiest among us.” During the most recent government shutdown, which is now determined as the longest shutdown in U.S. government history, the federal government initially refused to pay out SNAP benefits in full before a federal judge ruled they had to do so. After 44 days, the government reopened and SNAP benefits were restored. However, many people across the nation were feeling the repercussions of the shutdown. Basic Human...
Saint Mother Theodore’s Legacy Lives: Giving Day 2023
Become a Legacy Giving Day donor – give a gift in October! This giving day (officially Oct. 18) celebrates Mother Theodore’s milestones (birthday (10/2), Feast Day (10/3) and Foundation Day (10/22)), and how Saint Mother Theodore Guerin ministered to those needing education, medicine, prayers, spiritual hope, free schooling and more. It also highlights the way the Sisters of Providence move her legacy forward today. GIVE THE GIFT OF HOPE TODAY! Your gift honors the strong foundation that Mother Theodore built...
A Gracious Ceremony: New Building for Miracle Home
...years. Begun as a daycare, home care services office and community-based services for the elderly. Through the efforts of Sister Rose, director since 2013, it now provides critical services for the elderly and those with disabilities and dementia. Miracle Home’s services include daycare, home care, respite care, Meals on Wheels, case management, services for caregivers and transportation services. These services aid more than 800 individuals and families each year. With their continued growth and expansion of services, lack of space...
Thoughts on National Daughters Day
One thing leads to another. How true it is. I willingly agreed to write a blog on National Daughters Day. (My mother never seems to have celebrated the day even though she had two daughters). Being blissfully ignorant of the history of the day, I turned to every researcher’s friend — Google. Facts and the occasional commentary People in many countries around the globe celebrate National Daughters Day. In the United States, September 25 is the official celebration day. In...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe answers questions
...body, the human race, we’re connected. The parallel could be put on the level of the family spirit. You have a very special connection to the people in your own family. The same thing is true for all human beings – we all have a common life. Because we are closely allied with every other human person, and because some people have shown very strong ways of living a life like God would live it, we ask these people to...
Celebrating the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita
Saint Josephine Bakhita Feb. 8 is the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita. It is a day to remember her as a victim of human trafficking slavery and as the “black mother” who touched many lives. It is also a day to acknowledge massive human trafficking today and to commit to help stop this slavery primarily against young women and children. Bakhita wasn’t her name at birth in Sudan in the region of Darfur. In the midst of beatings, tortures and...
Call to Action: Make Your Voice Heard!
...political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures. It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family. It is about protecting both ‘the human environment’ and the natural environment. It is about our human stewardship of God’s creation and our responsibility to those who come after us.’ (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good, 2001). In December 2015, the leaders of 195 nations...
The charism of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...her charism as indomitable trust in Providence. The world is quick to write off belief in God and the church by citing the human suffering resulting from both natural calamities and inhuman behaviors. Mother Theodore understood the divine plan differently. She believed that God wants human beings to take an active role in the work of caring for creation. She steadfastly went about making the church Jesus had begun both visible and credible. In spite of a seemingly never-ending series...