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Where Your Treasure Is
...by thick concrete walls and by a system that had labeled her as less than human. As Congress begins negotiations for the 2019 budget, we know the Trump Administration has requested more resources to remove beloved residents like Sonia from our communities. The administration’s requests include: A massive increase in immigration detention – to 51,379 people in detention across the country every day Funds to recruit and hire 1,000 additional ICE officers, and Funds to compensate more local police to...
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...
Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather, are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation? To all persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Life on the farm at White Violet Center: Meet our summer crop of interns
...Alexis Klug Alexis has completed her junior year at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and is majoring in Environmental Science. She has been active with the Sustainability Club on campus. “I have an interest in gardening and farming because of my background through my family’s farm. I look forward to this internship position in order to gain more Environmental Science experience.” Liz Kuntz, Cleveland, Ohio Liz Kuntz Liz has recently completed her degree at Maryland Institute College of Art, majoring in Fiber Art with...
‘It was 20 years ago today …’
...to pardon me for taking some liberties with the superb Beatles song, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!” Students from Creighton University who attended the 2019 Alternative Spring Break pose with chickens at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Jeff Peak, the assistant director of the John P. Schlegel, SJ Center for Service and Justice at Creighton University, said eight students will travel from Omaha, Nebraska, this year for the week-long venture. “We’ve sent anywhere from six to nine students, depending...
Facing institutionalized racism within myself
...few summers ago to Memphis, Tennessee. I was assigned to help at the local Boys and Girls Club. As soon as I walked in, I felt uncomfortable. The group of other teenagers I was working with, our group leader and myself were all white, and we had just entered a building where everyone else was black. It was a startling experience for me. Raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, I had never been in a room or situation where there were...
Providence Food Pantry to celebrate 25 years
...organizations who support our pantry,” Sister Joseph said. For example, Sister Joseph said the Young’s Men’s Club of West Terre Haute has supported the pantry since its inception and offered $3,000 for the walk-in freezer and cooler used at the facility. “It shows what can be done if we put our trust in the Providence of our providing God and minister together as a loving and caring community,” Sister Joseph added. Providence Food Pantry is open from 8 a.m. to...
Sister Marie Paul Haas
...northwest side of Chicago and Oh! For years, she moderated the cheerleading club! Sister Marie Paul herself had this to say about her busy ministry: “Students are a channel of God’s grace for me. I’m at home with them as much as in the chapel or at prayers. They just affect me that way … (Adding) Also, it is a fitting way to practice patience.” Many sisters have memories of Marie Paul playing the bass in the Church of the...
Remembering Sister Barbara Doherty
...Sister Dorothy Mary (Noe). I promised her I would, so I got the proper permission to take her out that far. I also got a map with Sister Dorothy Mary’s grave marked so it would be easy for us to find. These visits triggered some beautiful memories for Barbara, and now I also know a little bit about Sister Dorothy Mary. Friendship One summer evening, Chuck took Barbara and me out to Saint Mary’s Supper Club. It was a wonderful...
The many gifts of volunteering
...will help me pay to attend The University of Texas at Austin. When I applied for this scholarship I attached my scholar high school resumé, SAT scores, perfect GPA, top 4 percent ranking and endless amount of clubs and extracurricular activities that I was involved with the last four years. I also included my time and service as a member of the Teen Ministry Program at Saint Mary’s of-the-Woods. The scholarship team awarded me the $12,000 scholarship. They told me...
Sister Josephine Paolinelli (formerly Sister Louise Joseph)
Before I begin, I would like to express sympathy to Jo’s cousin, Priscilla, her husband Neil, as well as to their son Ryan, his wife Cristina and their daughter Isabele. Sympathy to Jo’s extended cousins, band members, LGU members, current and former housemates, the Birthday club, her many friends as well as her closest friends, especially Terri Grasso with whom she has been friends for more than 53 years, Diane Mason, Sharon Richards, and if it’s OK to include myself,...