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Introducing Providence Community Cemetery
...cost for reservation of a niche in Rows A-E is $3,000. The cost is $2,500 to reserve a niche in Rows F-H. The Sisters of Providence have calculated the Fair Market Value of Interment Rights to be $1,840. The remainder of the purchase price, $1,160 or $660, we consider a charitable contribution, which is placed in a reserved fund for upkeep and perpetual care of the cemetery areas. You may wish to check with an accountant about a deduction for...
History Timeline 1966–Today
Timeline: 1840–1926 Timeline: 1926–1966 Timeline: 1966–Today The Sisters of Providence continue their mission of love, mercy, and justice. 1966–1976 Administration of Mother Mary Pius Regnier 1968 Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a period of unrest in the struggle for civil rights. 1969 First astronaut lands on the moon 1970 Special Chapter Adapting to changes in the Church With the end of Vatican II, many changes are happening in the Catholic Church. Sisters are encouraged...
What are You seeking?
...found the website for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Next, I began to learn about the life and challenges of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. This brought greater depth to my awareness of these Sisters of Providence, how they came to be, and their legacies. I was especially moved by their work for the human rights of people facing the harms of violent immigration enforcement, which is an injustice that is close to my heart, as a fifth...
Oral History: Sister Teresa Costello
...who had not regularly come back home. If I had any hard time it was trying to maneuver the changes that were happening at the Woods while living in the East.” Encouraging Education Sister Teresa returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1995 and worked for Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministry. She drove to about an hour to Sullivan, Indiana, weekly to work with groups living in government housing. Sister Teresa educated them regarding their rights and encouraged people to pursue education, explaining how...
December 10, Human Rights Day and This Little Light
...this current situation, I find comfort in Clarissa Pinkola Estes writing, “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” Incredibly, that may not be as limiting as it seems. As Sister Rosemary Schmalz and I prepare to launch Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights letters here at the Woods, we have the possibility of touching lives throughout this global...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
...To dilute what happened and is happening in our country is to welcome the evil that lurks in the pursuit of greed and power. Let us pray daily for the strength to speak out, to stand with everyone whose dignity is challenged. Now we cannot be silent. We are compelled by the Gospel to stand with our sisters and brothers whose human rights are being stripped from the fabric of their humanity. Our enemy is silence. We cannot be silent....
Join the Return to Human Rights Tour March 16-29
...United States and is buying from a company in Mexico that has an abusive human rights record. You are invited to join CIW in their tour, the longest protest action in the last 10 years of the Campaign for Fair Food, joining thousands of consumers in mobilizing for the national boycott. Other actions besides joining the tour to address this issue include: Sign an online petition, or Let your local Wendy’s know you are boycotting them and why. For more...
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...
Witness
...is left to chance. The staff is kind, solicitous even. Many are in PPE. A few have only a good-fitting mask on for protection. My overriding impression is that of a stark environment, devoid of human emotion, calm, and eerily quiet while an act of extreme violence is being inflicted upon another human being … a person whom Jesus referred to when enjoining us to “love our neighbor as ourselves.” Sadly, Terre Haute is the killing fields for the federal...
Immigration in the United States
...less important, less human. For Christians, this way of thinking and acting is unacceptable.’ “While an emphasis on anti-trafficking is welcomed, several of the executive orders signed by President Trump this week are specifically intended to eviscerate humanitarian protections enshrined in federal law and undermine due process, subjecting vulnerable families and children to grave danger. The open-ended deployment of military assets to support civil immigration enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border is especially concerning. Meanwhile, policies barring the consideration of any...
Newsnotes
...2016 Indiana State University Human Rights Day event on March 8. Former head of the United Nations in Sudan, Dr. Mukesh Kapila, served as the keynote speaker of the event, which also featured three sessions of multiple speakers for students and others to attend. Sisters Donna Butler, Mary Montgomery and Marsha Speth all attended the event. Sister Marsha represents the SPs on the Human Rights Day Committee. Sisters Ann Casper (left) and Ann Sullivan during the 2016 Women...
Peaceful, uplifting Gathering in Solidarity event at the Woods
...men, children and even a few pets attended the Gathering in Solidarity event, held by the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. It was a positive, encouraging event that addressed the belief that we must commit ourselves to advancing human rights for all people and practice empathy to build understanding across differences. Attendees were encouraged to write letters to their representatives, in support of advancing human rights for all people. There was also an information table at the event....