Ministries | JPIC Ministries After Vatican II

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Brief description	Author
Margherita (Magee) Cappelli The Catholic Connection was founded in 1980 by a group of lay people who wanted a justice and peace organization in the conservative Archdiocese of Boston to which they could look with pride. As its first Director I organized three task forces: Peace,	droche
Street Academy of Albany Street Academy was originally formed in 1970 by a partnership between the Albany Chapter of the Urban League and an order of nuns from Kenwood Academy of the Sacred Heart in 1970. Kenwood Academy, a novitate for over 100 years, doesn't exist any more - the school merged with an Episcopalian educational institution, and the grounds on which the...	droche
Sprout Creek Farm Founded in 1982 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, Sprout Creek Farm was originally located on the campus of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut. The operations moved to Dutchess County, New York, in 1990. The relocation to New York came after Sprout Creek Farm was identified as “mission-aligned” with the intent of the...	droche
Margaret (Meg) Canty Among many other instances two events are more significant than others. In 1969 in Albany NY a strong effort was begun to respond to new insights on the need for integration in educational settings. We attended courses at the State University and were influenced by speakers like James Cone. .	droche
Muriel Claire Heide Muriel was 56 years old when she came back (from Peru). Vatican II had dispersed with all but "strict cloister" and life for nuns had changed radically in the US. ( ) She wanted...to work with less fortunate people and to use her Spanish. Eventually she and Sister Carol Putnam came to the South End (of Boston) where a group of nuns began...	droche
Claire Krim For most of her religious life Claire Krim served in the classrooms and boarding schools of the Society. However, in 1967, at the age of 68, Sr. Krim began teaching CCD in Harlem. She then went on to open a storefront ministry in Harlem which later became the Fifth Avenue Community Center where Leontine O'Gorman, RSCJ, served for so many...	droche
Suzanne Lasseigne “In 1986 Barb Dawson asked me to go to Oakdale, LA, to minister in a new immigration detention center. The government had just opened it as a fully equipped deportation processing center with landing strips, helipads and judges for Central Americans crossing the border with Mexico. This was at the height of the wars in Nicaragua and El...	droche
Dorothy (Dot) McMichael Her last work with Oonah Ryan at Neighborhood Artisans allowed her to share her artistic talents, as she taught china painting on tile, fabric painting and acrylic painting on wood. With Oonah she organized sewing projects, one of which involved preparing materials for 200 students to produce more than twenty quilts in one day. The quilts were...	droche
Anne Webster Beginning in February, 1965, there was a series of marches and demonstrations in several cities in Alabama. On February 18 in Marion, and March 7 and 9 in Selma, unsuccessful marches were turned back violently. On March 21, about 3,200 people began a walk from Selma to Montgomery, protected by federal troops. Along the way, many more joined...	droche
Loretta Somerville Loretta began her ministry in schools of the Sacred Heart as teacher, administrator, and Boarding School Director in Detroit and Buffalo. Already having her MA and Psy. Specialist degrees, in the late 80’s she completed her PH.D in Clinical and Educational Psychology. Her ministries then turned toward private practice with a variety of age...	droche
Evelyn Kane Sister Kane dedicated many of her summers away from school in ministry to migrant farmworkers, in the dioceses of Saginaw, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Raleigh, North Carolina. She approached everything she did with the heart of an educator and was committed to serving the poor, especially immigrants. To read more about Evelyn's life,...	droche
Anita (Tita) Lapeyre While at Maryville, she also served as a college counselor, a position she found life giving and more suitable to her gifts than administration or classroom teaching. In this work, she found a home for herself. In addition to being certified in clinical pastoral education, Tita also received certification as a CPE supervisor. At the conclusion...	droche
Anita (Nita) Villere In 1981, Sister Villeré began a social services ministry as director at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Center in New Orleans, where she remained until 1992. She spent three years providing hospitality to visitors at the U.S. provincial offices in St. Louis, before accepting an invitation to serve in pastoral care at Oakwood in 1994. There she was...	droche
Elizabeth Walsh Sr. Walsh was involved in many campus activities (at the University of San Diego.). She served as Chair of the English Department and on a number of committees, among them the Faculty Senate, the Rank and Tenure Committee, and she directed the Graduate Program in English. She was also very active in student affairs because of her position as...	droche
Angela Serna Angela worked for the State of New York for over 30 years, assisting homeless and low-income individuals and families.	droche
Mary Stewart During her nine years in St. Louis, Sister Stewart taught art to women incarcerated at the St. Louis County Jail and served as a prison chaplain and art therapist. She was also active in St. Anselm’s parish social justice programs. To read more about Mary's life, click on the link under her picture.	droche
Anita VonWellsheim Anita was a gifted and talented educator who by 1972 experienced a "new and growing awareness for a world of suffering and injustice and an understanding of the mission to bring the good news of the Gospel to the poor". After a year of preparation for a transition to this new ministry, Sr. von Wellsheim became principal of Holy Rosary and Mt....	droche
Eileen O'Gorman Eileen O’Gorman, RSCJ, was primarily known as a revered English professor and champion of literature and the literary arts but she also was instrumental in helping Ruth Dowd found Harlem Prep.	droche
Ana Ospina From 1961 to 1969, Sister Ospina served as a seamstress at Kenwood Convent of the Sacred Heart in Albany. In 1969, she moved to New York City, first working at a community center in Harlem teaching sewing and performing various other services for the poor. Ana studied pastoral ministry at the Mexican-American Cultural Center in San...	droche
Irene Packer Irene served in many places and in various capacities in the Society. She worked in the kitchens and laundries and parlors at Manhattanville, Noroton, and Newton. The ministry she loved the most was working in the library at the Red Cloud Indian School at Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She spent eight years at the school. Irene earned a B.A. in...	droche
Oonah Ryan In 1977, Sister Ryan left Bloomfield Hills for the inner city of Detroit, where she served as the assistant and acting pastor at St. Agnes Parish. When she arrived at St. Agnes, she found a depressed and struggling community with nearly half of the residents unemployed, most of whom were teens and single mothers. The lack of job skills, Sister...	droche
Rosemary (Wickie) Sheehan In 1965 Sr. Sheehan began her almost 50 years of ministry at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, twenty-two years of which she served as Head of the Upper School during the turbulent times of the 1960-80’s. Generations of alumnae were touched by her wisdom, fidelity to them and their lives and willingness to help them through times of joy...	droche
Georgiana Logan Georgiana Logan, RSCJ, has served as a bereavement counselor with hospice, offering counseling and support to help family members of hospice patients transition through grief to reinvest in life.	droche
Gwen Hoeffel Sr. Gwendolyn Hoeffel is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and spent most of the last 50 years living and working in Japan. From the 1960s to the 1980s, she taught at the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, eventually serving as principal of kindergarten to fourth grade. She spent the following two decades...	droche
Mary Elizabeth (Liz) Fisher Liz was trained as a Social Worker and used her training for more than twenty years in a variety of settings, starting in the late 1980s with Catholic Charities, followed by a time at Family Bridges, Inc, working in their Hong Fook Adult Day Health Center. From 2001 to 2003 she worked at the St. Anthony Foundation and then spent eight years...	droche