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Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...background of abortion, climate change and the culture of exclusion, it is clear that the faith-filled voter who seeks to be guided by Catholic social teaching is confronted by compelling moral claims that cut across the partisan and cultural divides of our nation. The pathway from these crosscutting moral claims to decisions on particular candidates is not a direct and singular one in Catholic teaching, rooted in one issue. For this reason, the drive to label a single issue preeminent...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Indianapolis. “After a well deserved sabbatical at Notre Dame University in 1989, Sister Mary returned to Boston for six months to care for her dying mother. After that time, she served three more years as a pastoral associate, this time at St. Joseph Parish, Lebanon, Ind. Sister Mary’s last full-time mission was three years as an employment training specialist for Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana. Goodwill had a job training program that was organized to prepare people who were physically...
Regina Ann Lynch
Sister Regina Ann was a native of Indianapolis. Her final ministry was in prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Regina Ann entered the Congregation on February 2, 1948. She professed final vows on August 15, 1955. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She also has a master’s degree in education from Indiana State University. Sister Regina Ann has ministered as a teacher and nurse’s assistant. She taught at All Saints School in Indianapolis from 1979...
Called to transformation, called to transform
...in profound and utter awe that this day has come for me at the ripe age of 51.” Joni, you cannot use your youth as an excuse. God’s call Sister Dawn offers the reflection here on Saturday, August 14. We know Jeremiah’s story. How did our Provident God speak to Joni and Jessica’s hearts? Both of you were leading successful lives, by the world’s standards — good jobs, meaningful activities. Sister Joni, you were making a difference in young peoples’...
Examining International Equal Pay Day
...for the achievement of improved gender equity standards. However, its spokespersons have admitted that it will take much more time than that. So while the trend is toward a smaller pay gap, our hard and dedicated efforts must continue. There’s still work to do Within the United States, the entities that seem to work most directly toward ending the gender pay gaps are labor unions, teachers’ and other education-related groups, public sector workers, Black Americans and Hispanic Americans. In reviewing...
Our Providence Community 2024-25 Laudato Si Action Platform Plan
Who Are We? Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, who founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, in 1840, knew the value of caring for all of Creation. The legacy of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin infuses the contemporary life of the Providence Community with deep trust in the Providence of God, inclusivity of the diversity of creation, and active response to God’s call to care for all creation. The Providence Community has a strong commitment to love, mercy and justice. This is...
March 30, 2025: Fourth Sunday of Lent
...who rejoices in the reunification. I wonder how the tax collectors and sinners gathering around Jesus felt when the religious leaders started protesting. Their judgmental statement must have stung with shame. I imagine that Jesus’ parable brought them hope and dignity. Hope in forgiveness, inclusion, understanding and love. Jesus was clear, people, love, and inclusion over laws, conformity and exclusion. Action How have your values been rearranged this Lent? How might our rigid standards be harmful and exclusive? Which values...
Addiction as a Social Justice Issue
...certain mandatory Medicaid benefits, and the law also allows States the choice of covering other optional benefits. Mandatory Medicaid benefits include inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physician services, laboratory services, radiology services and home health services, among others. Proposed changes to Medicaid based on the Congressional Budget Office include: Increased Community Engagement and Work Requirements Increased Proof of Eligibility Moratorium on Provider Taxes Decrease in Enrollment Eligibility for Medicaid Increased and Enhanced Verification Standards Increased Cost-Sharing Charges In total, 7.6...
Improvements Abound: Structures Undergoing Facelifts
...the actual painting. Construction on Saint Mary-of-the-Woods grounds. Grotto Bridge Upgrades to Elevators The Lourdes Hall elevator, used primarily by the sisters in health care to get to appointments, church and activities and to transport food carts to health care in Mother Theodore and in Lourdes halls, got a total upgrade. Thanks to generous donors most of the mechanical parts were replaced and it was brought up to code for modern safety standards. “It will be like new once it...
Sister Marian Elizabeth Moriarty
...them, and yet, how important, and in the case of light, how essential to life. As I reflected on Sister Marian Elizabeth and the way she went about living, it was clear that even though she was not noticed by worldly standards with positions of prominence or awards or noted in ‘Who’s Who,’ her life definitely had a special flavor to it and that flavor persisted to age 93. Her lamp gave light to the whole house, the whole school,...
Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always.
...standards. It is easy to see that there is still work to be done. The UN Office for Human Rights says it this way, “Fifty years on, many people are still unaware of the existence of the International Bill of Human Rights and many countries around the world still have much to do to build political institutions, judicial systems, and economies that allow ordinary people to live with dignity. The growth of hate speech against religious and racial minorities, the...
At Providence St. Mel, we believe …
...held to high standards of performance and maturity. There is no doubt that PSM is a place of discipline and structure, but it’s equally clear that it’s a place of positive energy and the infectious faith that success is attainable for anyone willing to work for it. As I entered into the PSM atmosphere again, I found myself just as proud of the things that had not changed as I was proud of the improvements over the years. I’d be...