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Defining Independence on Independence Day
It may be tempting to think independence happens in an instant; one moment we’re dependent and the next we’re independent. It’s tempting but too much evidence suggests otherwise. Babies crawl and then walk. Eggs, sugar, flour, butter, milk get all beaten together and baked before cookies emerge. Financial security may start with a piggy bank teaching the value of saving money; that habit can later lead to buying a car, paying rent, taking a vacation. So it is with the...
Sisters share USCCB President’s reaction to passage of bill
...especially vulnerable in our society. As its provisions go into effect, people will lose access to healthcare and struggle to buy groceries, family members will be separated, and vulnerable communities will be less prepared to cope with environmental impacts of pollution and extreme weather. More must be done to prevent these devastating effects. “The Catholic Church’s teaching to uphold human dignity and the common good compels us to redouble our efforts and offer concrete help to those who will be...
September 28, 2025: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...and cultural narratives, telling us to buy more. Perhaps we have some chronically unmet needs that leave us scared to give what we believe we don’t have. Maybe we have been hurt so many times, we shut down our hearts, thinking it will prevent more pain. Whatever it is, may we more and more each day recognize the abundance within and all around. May we be aware of and let in the goodness of life, receiving it with gratitude. May...
Polyculture. Or How I Stopped Worrying and Now Embrace the Unpredictable
...to buy our tomatoes because their own backyard ones weren’t producing (they were obviously experiencing the same weather-related issues that we were). Just when our supply was tanking, our demand was growing. Economics can be heartless sometimes. But, polyculture is also insurance. You shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket (not that we had issues with our chickens this year, thankfully). Polyculture provides us with resilience. In a year where tomatoes let us down, we were swimming in a...
Sister Sue Pietrus
...this was Sue’s favorite quote from Mother Theodore. How blessed we are that Ray and Florence Pietrus decided that their first-born child should take piano lessons. Thank you, Ray, for your part in nurturing Sue’s great gift of music and for the years and Saturdays you spent chauffering Susan and your other daughter, Nancy, from your south side Chicago home to the local Catholic school for piano lessons with Sister Marie. It seems to us that you and Flo and...
Vision of Mother Theodore
...length of time. “When Mrs. Owens stopped at St. Joseph’s that day in September, 1910, Sister Mary Theodata [O’Grady], the local Superior of the mission, and I visited with her. During the visits Mrs. Owens told us that she was in bed one evening not long before and she was wide awake when Mother Theodore stood at her bedside and said to her these words: ‘Sister Gertrude Clare will not die now; she is going to live and do great...
Blessing, dedication of Georgetown campus Oct. 1
...local agencies and organizations to provide need-based services; licensed group homes for foster children; family reunification and preservation shelter and case management; apartments for individuals and couples age 62 and older with limited incomes; a senior citizens center; assisted living and skilled nursing care; and a clinic. It is now in its 17th year and has served more than 17,000 individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana and Terre Haute. “We have never dedicated the entire campus here at Georgetown and...
PFS volunteer brings love for justice, education to her work
Sister Dorothy Gartland brings a love for education and justice to her work running the afterschool homework program at Providence Family Services. Students and volunteer tutors who come to Providence Family Services in Chicago may recognize Sister Dorothy Gartland as the no-nonsense supervisor of the afterschool homework program. They are directly impacted by her dedication to increasing education levels of local youth. What they may not recognize is the wealth of history and advocacy she represents. The 81-year-old Sister Dorothy...
Young Crawfordsville man offers sacrifice and prayer in walking to Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...it to Greencastle. He asked two local churches for overnight sanctuary and both declined, although Andrew said they were polite. He found a sofa in the DePauw University student union and slept for a couple hours, moved to a park bench on the town’s square, then saw a light in an old building. Perhaps it was the light of Providence. Andrew decided that if the door to the building was unlocked, he would sleep there until someone kicked him out....
Sister Jeanette Marie Lucinio
...She became a pastoral associate and director of religious education for St. Zachary Church in Des Plaines, Ill. She was recruited away from that ministry to join the staff of the Department of Word and Worship at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where she spent 25 years. Today, she retains the title of professor emerita at CTU, but she also serves as director of catechumenate for Sacred Heart Parish in Palos Hills, Ill. Sister Jeanette enjoys working at the local...
St. Anne Shell Chapel
...the chapel were collected by sisters from the local Wabash River. The shell mosaics were designed by Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte, who spent many days placing all of the shells by hand. The Saint Anne Shell Chapel is a tiny structure at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The door is intricate metal scrollwork. Inside, the walls are covered in shells, mostly from the local Wabash River. The Shell Chapel has two beautiful stained glass windows honoring Saint Anne, the...
Sister Cathy Buster called “heart and soul” of new migrant farm family community in Arcadia, Fla.
...play and their parents to interact. A bus shelter is there for local public buses and school buses to stop at CSJB. Sister Cathy Buster, project director and vice president of Casa San Juan Bosco, Arcadia, Fla. The community sits on 30 acres of an 86 acre parcel. Sister Cathy envisions additional parts of the parcel in the years ahead to include a small grocery store, 50 some additional homes, and a complex for senior citizens as funding becomes available....