Sister Barbara Battista
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Sister Barbara was born in 1957 in Indianapolis.
She entered the Congregation in 1985, taking first vows in 1988 and final vows in 1993.
Of her ministries, she has served as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacist and Family Medicine and Prenatal Care Physician Assistant, as well as ministering in occupational medicine. She also served as adjunct faculty at the graduate and undergraduate level and currently ministers as the Community Organizer/Justice Promoter for the Congregation.
Sister Barbara said she enjoys camping.
“I make most of my retreats tent camping,” she said. “I also enjoy kayaking and relaxing around the campfire.”
Written by this sister
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- A Note from Sister Barbara Battista: A Call to Action and a Time for Prayer
- A note from Sister Barbara from her experience in the death chamber
- A Note from Sister Barbara Battista: August 12, 2024
- A Note from Sister Barbara, July 10, 2024
- A note from Sister Barbara, June 12, 2024
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Sister Barbara is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
- The Sisters of Providence: A history of justice
- A Call to all Justice Advocates
- Our commitment to Laudato Si’ Action Platform
- Bearing witness to an execution
- Sisters of Providence react with prayer, advocacy to federal executions in Terre Haute
- Newsnotes
- Sisters of Providence join Terre Haute’s peaceful Black Lives Matter protest
- Ending the death penalty: what can we do?
- Newsnotes
- Stepping into justice: Sister Barbara Battista
- World AIDS Day: Sisters respond to AIDS epidemic, part 2
- Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
- A Father’s Day Tribute!
- The Sisters of Providence go to St. Patrick School
- From troubled teen to sister in medicine: Sister Barbara Battista
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