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Sister Joni Luna: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister today?
...I sometimes jokingly say, “The Sisters of Providence have ruined my life.” These past years, I have struggled to peel away and let go of old patterns and expectations of myself that no longer serve the good of all creation. In these past years, my eyes and heart have been opened and touched by Jesus’ message of love and forgiveness. I have been sensitized to pay attention as I seek to serve with the unconditional love and forgiveness that Jesus...
Sister Connie Kramer named Woman of Influence in Terre Haute
...from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She received a master’s degree in mathematics from Indiana State University and a master’s degree in pastoral ministry from Trinity College. She entered the Congregation Sept. 12, 1964, from Holy Angels Parish in Dayton. She has ministered as a high school classroom teacher, business officer and development director; pastoral minister; group and individual counselor; director of religious education; group consultant and facilitator; pastoral associate and associate administrator. She also served as administrator of dental services at...
Sister Mary Patricia Peacock (formerly Sister Alice Elizabeth)
...was for 27 years in schools in St. Philip Neri and St. Joan of Arc School Indianapolis and at St. Andrew, St. Columbkille, Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Angela and St. Mel-Holy Ghost Schools in Chicago. In these schools she worked with young children from pre-school age to grade 3. Sister Mary Pat’s pastoral theology degree prepared her to serve as pastoral associate and DRE at St. Dennis in Lockport for 10 years and at Assumption parish in Coal City,...
Oral history: Sister Barbara Ann Bluntzer
...being in Chicago. School integration Sister Barbara Ann tells of the challenges of her first time in Oklahoma City schools because they were not integrated at that time. And an all-white parish and a white pastor liked it that way. An African American physician came to the school to enroll his children, but the pastor would not allow it. The doctor then went to the Bishop, and the children were enrolled in school. When she returned to teach a few...
Sister Bernice Kuper (formerly Sister Ann Bernice)
...at St. Francis Xavier in Wilmette. In Indiana she taught at St. Patrick in Terre Haute, Nativity in Indianapolis and Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville. She taught in Oregon at La Salle High School in Milwaukie. Bernice was elected a provincial councilor of St. Gabriel’s Province. She served as pastoral associate at her beloved St. John Parish in Newburgh, Ind., for 13 years. She earned her credentials in spiritual direction and pastoral counseling. Among her ministries is one that...
A Queen’s Perspective: The ‘Daily Life’ of our Alpacas
...is not unlike what they say about me. I will allow those I consider close to me to call me Baz. But you may call me Madam President. Yes, I was elected herd president back in April, but I am also the Queen around the pasture. The Diva, if you will. My leadership skills are undeniable as soon as you step into our pasture. As part of my responsibilities, I have been asked to give you insight into the day...
Sister Carolyn Bouchard’s woodshop: a place of creativity and prayer
...my personal and ministerial life. I find a fallen tree, a broken branch, a person in need or distress from a storm in life. I do not see dead wood but possibility and new life. I do and did that with persons, too.” Sister Carolyn spent most of her nearly 40 years as a Sister of Providence ministering in Catholic parishes. “As a Sister of Providence I served in pastoral ministry which always included pastoral visitation to the sick and...
Father Daniel Hopcus: 50 Golden Years!
...I really came to admire him as a pastor, as a minister. Eventually, we became very good friends.” Father Dan was ordained in 1964 within the Orange Diocese. He began his ministry as an associate pastor for Holy Family, Orange, Calif. (1964-69), before going to St. Joan of Arc, West Los Angeles (1969-74). He also spent three years at St. Pius V, Buena Park, Calif., before a two-year stint at St. Columban, Garden Grove, Calif. He then became pastor at...
Racism’s infection within American healthcare
...will require the development of a healthcare system that resonates with people of color and intends to atone for the wrongs of the past in order to show that the medical community is worthy of being trusted. All health care professionals, but especially those that are white, should be required to learn of the American healthcare system’s history of racism, of the distrust that people of color may experience, and of systematic racism’s influence on the health of people of...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller: modern-day foundress
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller is CEO and founder of Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries in Georgetown, Indiana. Like Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companions who sank the roots of Providence into the wilderness of Indiana 174 years ago, Sister Barbara Ann Zeller continues the course of planting Providence. Over the past 20 years, Sister Barbara has founded in Georgetown, Indiana, a multi-faceted campus that serves peoples’ real and complex needs. At Providence House you will find reunification and strengthening homes for...
Sister Camille Neubauer (formerly Sister Jude)
...Paula continued: She was affirming, wise, hospitable, genuine and modeled dignity and grace. These words and statements were only some of the ways sisters, associates, friends and co-workers described our Dear Sister Camille over the past few weeks. These descriptors about Camille led me to this passage from Saint Paul’s letter to the Philippians (4:4-9): “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be...
Sister Barbara Sheehan receives Distinguished Service Award
...prophet, a risk-taker, a woman of integrity and a leader. Sister Barbara ministers as the executive director of Urban Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Consortium, Inc., Chicago. “Our dual mission is compassionate care and advocacy with the most vulnerable and the formation of persons in the art of urban pastoral care,” she said. Sister Barbara said the CPE Consortium was created in 2005 under her leadership with many theological educators and social agencies serving the poor. The agency’s goals are personal,...