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Everything is Connected – Our Consumption
...plastic particles themselves and the chemicals used in their manufacture. What Needs to Change? We need to move beyond consume-and-throwaway systems toward circular approaches that work within ecological limits. This means reusing, recycling and sharing materials and products. Governments must do more to make companies accountable for the impacts of their activities and supply chains. They also need to help consumers make sustainable choices, for example, through targeted taxation and requirements for clearer labeling on goods. Households and firms should...
Sister Florence Norton (formerly Sister Thomas Ann)
...the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. We welcome you to share your memories of Sister Florence in the comment section below. Complete Ministry In Indiana: Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis (1946-50); Teacher, St. Catherine, Indianapolis (1950-51); Teacher, St. Catherine, Indianapolis (1951-52); Volunteer – Woods Day Care/Pre-School, Providence Food Pantry, Helping Hands, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods/West Terre Haute (2010-18); ESL Teacher, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods/West Terre Haute (2014-18); Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Shrine/Church of the Immaculate Conception Docent, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2010-18); ESL Teacher, Shrine...
The Injustice and Dehumanization of Experiencing Homelessness
...the health system and health professionals; and, finally, (3) homelessness is a result of inequitable policies, practices, and choices our society has made.” There are many schools of thought on how to help people experiencing homelessness. Below are the more common methodologies used in communities. However, there is a lot of debate about which is most effective. Approaches Housing First provides immediate access to permanent housing with no housing readiness requirements. Transforms individual lives by ending homelessness and supporting recovery....
Musings on National Women’s Day
...the many achievements of women within our society, to honor women’s strength and resilience in the face of many social challenges and to highlight women’s positive contributions to American family life and to other social and global communities. Strong Roots If National Women’s Day was initiated here by practical citizens for practical reasons, it also had some strong German roots particularly in the work of Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), a well-known feminist, activist and member of the German Social Democratic Party...
A note from Sister Barbara from her experience in the death chamber
...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 and all persons? I still stand by the statement I made at Will McCrory’s execution: My faith and the teachings of our Church compel me to say No! to the death penalty and to work to abolish it. Surely just as we know that God loves us always...
Sisters share message against ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
...adverse effects. First, it provides tens of billions of dollars to the government to undertake a mass deportation campaign which will separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities. It will spur immigration raids across the nation, harming hard-working immigrant families essential to our economy and causing widespread unrest like we recently witnessed in Los Angeles. This funding also will be used to target faith communities, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has...
Novice Sister’s new Ministry: Blessing upon Blessing
Sister Stephanie Rivas, SP, received a special blessing from the Sisters of Providence on Aug. 23, as she enters her mission novice year (3rd in community). She also begins a new ministry at Central Catholic School in Indianapolis. Sister Stephanie Rivas As a newly hired Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) teacher for grades pre-k through 8th, Sister Stephanie is passing that blessing along with her gifts and talents to the children and staff at the school. She began her time...
Leadership Team statement: We must overcome all of this violence
...rather than working for the common good, we sow seeds of violence. Sister Jessica Vitente in prayer. Today, attending public events such as celebrations, parades, rallies, or even simply going to school can cause some concern. Indeed, violence in words and deeds is all around us. And yet, goodness is also all around us. Words matter. Every time we use derogatory words to label and dehumanize or deprive other persons of opportunities we choose for ourselves, we increase the possibility...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
...wait. Wait for the freedom death would bring. The cell of St. Maximillian Kolbe is there. A Franciscan friar, he and his companions stayed with the people of Krakow as the Nazis advanced. After he was sent to Auschwitz, he begged that Franciszek Gajowniczek’s life be spared and his taken in exchange. The Nazis complied. And so, it was. Gajowniczek survived and raised a family as a testimony to the act of love that saved his life. The place of Kolbe’s execution is...
Sister Mary Esther Lane (formerly Sister Francis Gertrude)
...testing the eyes of the children there and keeping the records, sending notes to parents about taking the children to the doctor. In 1995, she returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, where she ministered in community service. Part of that community service was to assist the sisters from Vietnam who were students in the college, helping them with English pronunciation and grammar. Sister Martha Wessel said she “really drilled them,” but Sister Jan Craven, whose bedroom was across the hall from the...
Senior jubilarians – 80 years and counting
...to be part of this effort in a special way, in a unique manner. You are at that time of life that social psychologists label “generative” – that is, it is your special gift to encourage and bring forth the gifts of others. Your gift to offer is that of wisdom, wisdom acquired by your having met life’s challenges, by years of fidelity to prayer and fidelity to the responsibilities of membership, to communal living, to lives of meaningful ministry....
“Creating Currents of Change” in Memphis
...to reflect on the theme, “The Well of Many Rivers: Creating Currents of Change.” The young adult conference activities were especially energizing, and even included a private Q and A session with Kerry Kennedy! Speakers John Sivalon, MM, Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, and Rev. James Lawson particularly elicited in me a new understanding of what it means to be Church, to work for justice for all the beloved community, in the here and now. What does it mean to be Church?...