Each year Catholic Sisters Week (CSW) is held March 8-14. This year, in honor of CSW, St. Louis Sisters kicked off a year-long online series called Exploring Intersections: Catholic Sisters on Racism, Migration and Climate. The series engages panelists in conversations about societal concerns facing the community. Exploring Intersections deals with issues that religious Sisters…
The new video series about Saint Mary Euphrasia has a back-story. In telling a story to her community of Sisters one day, Saint Mary Euphrasia said, “A long time ago, while traveling with two of our Sisters, we broke the journey and stayed with a Community, where we were cordially welcomed. In the course of…
The Congregational Chapter is a go! It is scheduled to take place from November 18 through December 5, 2021, at the Motherhouse in Angers, France, if COVID subsides. Preparation for Chapter will occur online through regional Zoom calls, resource gathering and sharing now through September. The Congregational Leadership Team will monitor reports of the coronavirus…
Nuncio Brown is the new papal ambassador to the Philippines. Pope Francis assigned United States Archbishop Charles J. Brown as his ambassador to the Philippines last September. The New York native had been the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Albania from March 2017 through September 2020. It was during his last year serving as Nuncio in…
Two former international students who came to the Mid-North America Province Center while learning English as a second language made final vows recently in their home countries. Magdalen Bui pronounced her vows on December 16, 2020, in East Asia Province, Vietnam Sector. She came to St. Louis from the East Asia, Vietnam Sector on July…
Let me share about my ministry and our Good Shepherd convent in Vietnam. It is difficult to introduce the convent because we don’t yet have a place to call our convent home. We are in the process of asking permission of the government to register the name Good Shepherd. It is a political process and…
