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The Injustice and Dehumanization of Experiencing Homelessness
...Strong evidence exists that the Housing First model leads to quicker exits from homelessness and greater housing stability over time compared with treatment as usual. And moderate evidence points to “reduced use of emergency department services, fewer hospitalizations and less time hospitalized…”The Veterans Administration Housing First team has social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, vocational and substance abuse counselors available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for those enrolled in the Housing First program. Treatment First prioritizes the value of...
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...
‘Othering’
...that I practiced it (unaware and subconsciously) for a long time. Providence Associate Jane Fischer bows to God present in others gathered at the retreat. When our Saint Mother Theodore Guerin arrived in New Orleans, she witnessed some of the worst of “othering” in the slave trade. She was a champion of justice and did not succumb to the practice of “othering,” which highlights her saintliness in the modern world. If we “go deeper” as Sister Diane Mason taught us,...
A note from Sister Barbara from her experience in the death chamber
...for the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and I was talking about watching as Mr. William Emmet LeCroy, Jr. took his last breath as he laid strapped down, flat on his back, on a slightly tilted cruciform table in a room full of windows. I recited the Divine Mercy Chaplet which “Will” had requested, and I wondered if the Warden, the U.S. Marshal, or the Executioner were silently praying. I knew Will was. Sister Barbara Battista during a...
Sisters share message against ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
...Presiding Elder Spencer Francis Barrett, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cascade District Rabbi Sarah Bassin, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (Rabbi-in-residence) Most Reverend Ramon Bejarano, Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California Most Reverend Steven Biegler, Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming Most Reverend Roy E. Campbell, Jr., Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, DC Most Reverend Anthony C. Celino, Auxiliary Bishop of El Paso, Texas The Rt. Reverend Angela M. CortiÒas, VII Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop...
Novice Sister’s new Ministry: Blessing upon Blessing
...at Central Catholic by building relationships with the principal, staff and students. She likes that the SEL curriculum, called Friendzy, is both faith- and academic-based. Central Catholic is housed in one building. It serves about 250 students who begin and end their day with prayer. The Principal reads the Gospel message at assembly and Sister Stephanie enjoys weekly mass with the students. Social and emotional learning SEL helps develop skills students need for everyday life, like staying motivated, communicating effectively,...
Leadership Team statement: We must overcome all of this violence
Note: The following statement was offered by the Sisters of Providence Leadership Team in the form of a Letter to the Editor. September 16, 2025 Countless acts of violence are taking the lives of children, family members, friends, political leaders and others in this country and in the world. Each of us has the capacity to decrease or increase the violence by our thoughts, words and actions. Every time we attempt to divide persons or groups over and against others...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
...is an exaggeration, watch documentaries, read, go to Holocaust museums. To dilute what happened and is happening in our country is to welcome the evil that lurks in the pursuit of greed and power. Let us pray daily for the strength to speak out, to stand with everyone whose dignity is challenged. Now we cannot be silent. We are compelled by the Gospel to stand with our sisters and brothers whose human rights are being stripped from the fabric of...
Senior jubilarians – 80 years and counting
...row (left to right), Sisters Mary Ann McCauley, Francis Edwards, Marilyn Herber, Emily Walsh, Patricia Geis, Alice Walsh. Back row (left to right), Sisters Dawn Tomaszewski, Lisa Stallings, Denise Wilkinson, Jenny Howard and Mary Beth Klingel. Happy Jubilee! The years 1932, 1937, 1942 and 1952 treated the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence very generously – gifting us with our 19 senior jubilarians who celebrate today! For 80, 75, 70 and 60 years, you sisters have been faithful to the...
Sister Sharon Richards
Current ministry: Teacher, Center for Correctional Concern, Joliet, Ill. Years in the Congregation: 55 Contact Sister Sharon at: 708-703-7014 or sisrichards@Comcast.net Q. What do you like best about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods? A. All of the opportunities to walk outdoors. Q. When I am not involved in ministry or officially at work, you are likely to see me … A. Grocery shopping or cleaning the house or something like that. On your days off you have to take care of things. Q....
“Creating Currents of Change” in Memphis
...John Sivalon, MM, former Maryknoll Superior General, spoke Saturday morning on “Francis and a Recovery of the Spirit of Vatican II.” Sivalon, with a strikingly humble and reflective tone, asked us to look closely at Pope Francis’ 2013 Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospels). There we found a renewed sense of Church as a Spirit-led people of pilgrims, rich in its diversity. We celebrated Pope Francis’ embrace of varied currents of thought, which in his words, “serve to...
St. Joseph Lake history photo album
...picnic to the lake. From left clockwise: Sisters Marie Patrice Cleary, Ann O’Hara, Luke Crawford and Cathy Buster. Trucking the sisters in for the 1981 infirmary picnic at St. Joseph’s Lake. Sister Jean Fuqua’s typed note from the St. Joseph Lake scrapbook regarding the infirmary picnic in 1982. Sister Jean Fuqua mowing the lawn at St. Joseph’s Lake several years ago. Sister Cecilia Ann Miller swimming at St. Joseph Lake in the 1980s. Sister Jeanne Knoerle ice skates on St....