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8th Day Center for Justice: Statement on White Supremacy
...President Donald Trump’s actions and President Thomas Jefferson’s actions needs to be addressed and repaired. There are not two sides. The ideology of white supremacy is not an equivalent argument to the rejection of white supremacy. The people who opposed the Nazis were not morally or ideologically equivalent to the people who supported them. The position of unequivocally naming white supremacy as wrong is not a denial of the belief systems or rights of a group. It is an affirmation...
Intersectionality – what is it?
...March, says “When you have to decide between going down to do something about climate change or trying to feed your children, or worrying about police brutality — those kinds of things take immediate precedent over the longer-term issues of air pollution and soil erosion …” Katherine Egland, the chair of the Environmental and Climate Justice for the NAACP National Board of Directors, claims that climate change and environmental pollution are civil-rights issues, just like criminal justice or education. “What would...
A bit of anti-racism history
...During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Sisters of Providence helped educate African Americans, provide health care for the economically disadvantaged and assisted minorities with voter registration. Today, they continue with educational programs in disadvantaged regions in the South and in Mexico. The Congregation also has personal experience with discrimination. In the mid-1990s, sisters were denied access to housing in Chicago because one sister happened to be African American. Legal action was pursued successfully. After winning the lawsuit, the...
A celebration of interculturality
...reading a professional magazine article about feminism, a movement that only came to be taken seriously in the 1970s. Up until then, most people took it for granted that a certain social order had been ordained by God and it should and could never be changed. Then people came who questioned it. Asked “why?” and “why not?” And women’s rights came to be seen as a new cultural phenomenon. The movement would change how women were treated by themselves and...
Sister Kathleen Dede: Reaching out in love right where you are
...the needs of the times according to the talents of the sisters,” as she put it. Need for social workers This was immediately after the civil rights riots, and Sister Kathleen saw a compelling need for social workers. Although Mother Mary Pius thought it would be a wonderful ministry, she was reluctant to give permission because the Congregation lacked the finances to fund it. So, she granted permission, if Sister Kathleen could find funding for her study. After doing some...
You are invited to celebrate vows, share in a sister’s story
...live. Tune in via Zoom webinar here https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89243615357 or watch on Facebook Live@SistersofProvidence. Hear about Sister Tracey’s call as a 20-something woman to become a Sister of Providence. Learn about her ministry today, including her 2018 arrest when she joined other faith leaders in Indiana in protesting for the rights of DACA immigrants. And hear about Sister Tracey’s current ministry on the U.S./Mexico boarder. We hope you can join us during these exciting events that will celebrate our newer Sisters...
Congregation statement on ACLU lawsuit
The Sisters of Providence support the life and respect the dignity of all persons as we seek an end to the death penalty in our nation. We join with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, Death Penalty Action, Indiana Abolition Coalition and other organizations and individuals in filing a lawsuit to protect our First Amendment Rights that allow us to peacefully protest outside the main entrance of the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and to hold prayer vigils...
The many gifts of volunteering
...Saint Mother Theodore’s shrine and learned about White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Every summer I looked forward to our visit to the Woods. The bonds created are irreplaceable. I was able to hear about how some of the sisters stood up for civil rights during the 1960s and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. And, about how others have fought tirelessly for social justice and strive to be a voice for the voiceless. I learned that everything the sisters do is...
Can we talk about racism?
...we all desperately need to do.” (That’s an explanation, not an excuse.) That story was my first dose of awareness of the underlying racism pervading American life. As a teen I was what many would call a good, upstanding, white Christian boy — happy and well-intentioned, but not at all aware of the depth of the racism around me. In college and graduate school during the civil rights era I began an all-too-gradual awakening to the ways we all participate...
Living the Gospel of HOPE
...and justice. By embodying in all kinds of little actions the values of the gospel and of Catholic social teaching: By honoring the life and dignity of every single person. By caring for all of creation. By welcoming the stranger, feeding the hungry, respecting the dignity of work and the rights of workers, living the beatitudes in our daily lives. We know the lists. We actually come to know what these lists mean through the many men and women —...
White Violet Center interns: Meet the fabulous four!
...interns! Gaia Malin, Louisville, Colorado Gaia is majoring in Drama and Dramatic Writing (Playwrights Horizons) at New York University (NYU). Prior to beginning college, Gaia has worked with: Youth Advocating for Change, LGBTQ+ Advocate and Researcher, Boulder, Colorado Boulder Valley Women’s Health, Sex Education Lobbied at the Colorado capitol for LGBTQIA+ issues and other educational bills Gastronaut and Mooya restaurants “When COVID-19 induced expulsion from the NYU dorms in March, I found myself in a classic swirling pit of existential...
Why I say “Yes” to life as a Sister of Providence
...falls short in truly describing the meaning of this sacred Providential “Yes.” Sister Joni, center, with Sisters Anna Fan, SP, and My Huong Pham at a community gathering in 2015 I am also saying “Yes” to being in daily communion and service with my Creator and my sisters in community. Together we are creating a space where all persons are made to feel like they matter. Where their basic needs of food, clean water and clothing are met. Where the rights...