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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
...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...
News conference and celebration
...the Eucharistic Liturgy in celebration of the announcement that paves the way for the possibility of Mother Theodore being declared a saint. Sister Marie Kevin Tighe speaks to a reporter about Mother Theodore. Dave Cox, media relations manager for the Sisters of Providence, Sister Marie Kevin Tighe and Phil McCord, facilities manager, speak after the press conference. The Thralls family supported Mother Theodore and their companions upon the arrival of the missionaries in the United States. Descendents of the Thralls...
National Catholic Rural Life Conference highlights Providence in the Desert
Click here to read the National Catholic Rural Life Conference’s coverage of Providence in the Desert’s ministry to Mexican immigrants in rural Coachella, Calif....
Providence: together as one creation
...superiors come together toward this goal. And so the Conference of Major Superiors of Women [which later became the Leadership Conference of Women Religious] was formed in the United States. Efforts to work together continued during the 1960s. Then Vatican II called us to walk with the people of God and watch for the “signs of the times.” By the early 1970s, religious were coming together in new ways. The justice lobbying group NETWORK formed in Washington, D.C. The 8th...
A day in the life … Sister Rose Marita Riordan
Sister Rose Marita Riordan cleans up following a meeting at the Providence Spirituality and Conference Center. While Sister Rose Marita Riordan may be 93 years young, she still hasn’t officially “retired.” Sister Rose Marita spent more than 50 years in education, including three stints as a principal in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. She came back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1990 after “retiring.” “The question was, what was I going to do?” Sister Rose Marita said. “There were a lot...
Compassion for Earth
...One such issue is that of climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will conduct the 21st “Conference of the Parties” from Nov. 30-Dec. 11, in Paris. From Nov. 30-Dec. 11, the 21st “Conference of the Parties,” organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) will take place in Paris. COP21 will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping...
Healing difficult relationships through writing
Jeanne Frost, administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, served as caretaker for her mother for 15 years. Her mother suffered from dementia, causing challenges in their relationship. After her death in 2014, Frost decided to attend a Mining the Dark retreat in Oldenburg, Indiana. The retreat focuses on using writing to find healing from difficult relationships. Jeanne Frost is the administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center “I’ve used writing to work through difficult situations since I...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Jubilees
...with bachelor’s degrees in education, English and mathematics. She earned a master’s degree in theological studies at Ateneo De Manila University. Sister Editha ministered as the Director of Religious Education at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Bensenville, Illinois, and as an instructor and staffer in the Office of International Affairs at Providence University in Taiwan. Sister Paula Damiano is a native of New Castle, Pennsylvania. Currently, she serves as director of Retreats and Programs and Co-Director at Providence Spirituality & Conference...
Leadership Team shares LCWR statement on immigration
...the public charge regulation threaten us all. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious urges all people of faith to call for protection of immigrants, especially those who are most vulnerable, and to register their objection to this unreasonable and mean-spirited proposal during the 60-day comment period. LCWR is an association of leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. The conference has more than 1,300 members, who represent more than 38,800 women religious in the United States....
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...a receptionist at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, and a music coordinator at Providence Health Care, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Sister Gloria, formerly Sister Cecilia, entered the Congregation on Jan. 6, 1958, from St. John, Vincennes. She professed final vows on Aug. 15, 1965. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in music education. She earned a master’s degree in music education from Indiana State University. Her ministries include: Sellersburg, Indiana: Teacher, St. Paul (1962-66), Fayetteville, North Carolina:...
Sister Camille Neubauer (formerly Sister Jude)
...God through the liturgy. Those many years of interacting with persons of all ages, prepared Sister Camille for her most recent ministry; that of hospitality minister at Woods Day Care and then Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. It was in this ministry that Camille welcomed hundreds, perhaps thousands of persons to our Woods. Julia Lopez-Kaley, a friend of Camille said this, “Camille had such presence. When she asked how you were doing, you always knew that she really wanted to...