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Peace & Justice

As a community dedicated to advocating for the marginalized, we Sisters of Providence join our voices with others in speaking out about many peace and justice issues of great importance in our world. Learn more about justice concerns dear to our hearts here.

Blog, Features

The Season of Creation 2022

Listen to the sounds surrounding you. What are you hearing? How is Earth calling to you for action?

Climate Change Task Force
August 3, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Eco-Spirituality, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Season of Creation

Features

In Service to Life, All Life

As engaged Catholic citizens we call on all people of faith, and especially our Catholic companions, to advocate for comprehensive legislative reform that supports the thriving of all life.

Sisters of Providence
July 12, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements

Features, News Releases

Congregation shares statement on MPP ruling

Note: The following is a joint press release from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). We stand in solidarity with this statement, which was released on Thursday, June 30, 2022. Catholic Leaders…

Sisters of Providence
July 1, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements

Features, News Releases

Congregation shares LCWR statement on action to prevent gun violence

We pledge to stand with all who seek to put an end to the epidemic violence in our land and to follow the path to peace.

Sisters of Providence
May 26, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements

Features, News Releases

Congregation issues statement following Uvalde, Texas, shooting

Our future and our children deserve better

Sisters of Providence
May 25, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements

Blog

Our commitment to Laudato Si’ Action Platform

We are excited to represent the Providence Community to be part of Pope Francis' call to address the most urgent needs plaguing Earth and the poor and to take this focus into our daily lives.

Features, News Releases

Leadership Team shares LCWR Statement and Congregation commitment

Our Leadership Team wanted to share with all of you the following statement from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), and our recent Chapter Commitment of Racial Equality and Equity.

Sisters of Providence
May 18, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements

Blog

Racism’s infection within American healthcare

The United States government needs to recognize how their mistakes and how systematic racism as a whole has ruptured the relationship between Americans of color and their nation’s healthcare system. Mending this relationship will require the development of a healthcare system that resonates with people of color and intends to atone for the wrongs of the past in order to show that the medical community is worthy of being trusted.

Features

Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community

t’s been a wonderful journey. I love the people. I’ve been so blessed by the African American community. Having shared their story, their faith, their dependence on God, my own journey as a Sister of Providence has been really transformed."

Amy Miranda
May 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Peace & Justice, Providence Associates, Sisters in Ministry

Blog

Prayer poem: heaviness of war

what will the world turn into now when we no longer protect the weak
what can i do when i am so far away and my voice is meaningless to those with the guns ...
and i am not strong enough physically to fight them
what will be left when the fighting stops

Features, News Releases

Sisters of Providence sign Catholic Sisters letter on end of Title 42

Many Sisters of Providence recently signed this letter to President Biden

Sisters of Providence
May 5, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Sisters in Ministry, SP Statements

Blog

Poem: Earth rising

It is alive and clings to us in way we have forgotten

Sister Ruth Johnson
April 22, 2022
Advocacy & Action, Eco-Spirituality, Peace & Justice, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
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