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by bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Japan, Maryknolls, Mining, New Mexico, News, religious sister | 0 |
Maryknoll Sister Rose Marie Cecchini never expected to spend so much of her ministry — and for such a lengthy period — helping the state’s tribal peoples deal with the literal fallout of uranium mining.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Documentary, Franciscans, News, religious sister, Sainthood cause | 0 |
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2022 | Art, Art exhibit, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, religious sister | 0 |
Sulpician Father Dominic Ciriaco finds inspiration for preaching in the vibrant serigraphs of artist Corita Kent, who created art as a religious sister and later as a former religious.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racism, religious sister, Social Justice | 0 |
The topic of racism can be a source of conflict. But when Sister Melinda Pellerin found herself in a conversation with a woman who denied the existence of systemic racism in the U.S., she let her faith lead her response.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2022 | Art exhibit, Catholic News Service, Church History, Church in the US, News, pop culture, religious sister | 0 |
One of the most progressive items at a New York Public Library exhibit, perhaps overlooked by visitors heading for pop culture gems such as the hand-painted ballet slipper designed by Coco Chanel, belongs to a nun.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2022 | Africa, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Donations, Humanitarianism, Ireland, News, religious sister, Uganda, Water | 0 |
When Catholic real estate developer Nick Jordan made a trip to Uganda to look at the village schools he had helped finance, he was bothered by what he saw: far more boys than girls as students.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 13, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Franciscans, Jubilees, News, Religious Life, religious sister | 0 |
Right after high school, Sister Marlene Weidenborner entered the religious community of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, although she had no intention of staying.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2021 | Catholic Church, COVID-19, lead, News, religious sister, Sister Alessandra Smerelli, Sister Carol Keehan, Vatican | 0 |
Some 300 religious sisters on Tuesday heard their peers call on them to “empower women” through education, institutions specifically created to support women, being critical of situations where women are being “trampled on,” and by telling the stories of the thousands of religious sisters who are fulfilling their “apostolic mission.”
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