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Mary Catherine (Mickey) McKay In 1970 a new phase of education began for me. I was elected to the Central Team in Rome and found myself being stretched not only by my Roman community, but by my sisters in forty countries on every continent. Many of my sisters were "totally apostolic" as they struggled to make the Kingdom come, laying down their lives for their friends and...	droche
Mary Louise (Mamie) Jenkins Mamie was a musician. She majored in music at Manhattanville College before entering the Society. She taught music in school, until aware of her diminishing energy, she made the decision to train as a music therapist, so that when she was no longer able to work in school, she could continue her ministry through her music. (From the book by...	droche
Margaret Mary (Mike) Hoffman Mike moved to Grand Coteau to work with the very poor. In order to become familiar with both African American and Cajun people, she began working in a hospital setting, from which she could follow patients into their homes and teach families how to care for them. But then, her own tum came! Back surgery kept her in bed for six months, and the...	droche
Lisa Tebbe and John Powell “How did a social justice teacher not know?” The question haunts John Powell to this day. John teaches social justice as part of the theology curriculum at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School in St. Louis. His wife, Lisa Tebbe, is an alumna of the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles, where she is the admissions director. ...	droche
Children of Mary in St. Louis In the late 1940s and '50s some Jesuits called racism a sin in their lectures at the monthly Enfant de Marie meetings. They discussed Cardinal Ritter's desegregation of the St. Louis Archdiocese Schools in 1947 and explained why he had excommunicated a few Catholics who publicly opposed the change. (from a booklet written by Patricia Rice in...	droche
Carol Bialock Carol Bialock, RSCJ, is not a traditional nun. She is a poet, an activist and a student of Sufism, and she has spent her life deeply devoted to those in need. And now she is a published author as well, seeing her vivid book of poems, Coral Castles, released by Fernwood Press on her 90th birthday.	droche
Suzanne (Sue) Rogers On a dreary day in February in northern Indiana, the warmth in the Earthworks Market came from the bright smiles of the graduates. Brandon, Corey, Deborah and Hannah celebrated their completion of the first Project Ready course, an employment training program for young developmentally disabled men and women. Project Ready provides education...	droche
Cecile Meijer I t was a rainy Thursday in Manhattan in mid-May when Cecile Meijer, RSCJ, and Evanne Hunter, IBVM, boarded a bus for the United Nations, where they would be attending, as they nearly always do on Thursdays, a briefing for representatives of NGOs. The letters stand for “nongovernmental organizations” and, at the UN, refer specifically to...	droche
Mary Kay Hunyady Along time ago, I took a course with Peter Henriot, S.J., during his seventeen-year tenure at the Center of Concern in Washington, D.C. Toward the end of the class, he said something along these lines: “I know that Red Dye #40 is bad for us, so on Mondays I refrain from consuming anything with Red Dye #40. We are boycotting this particular...	droche
Mary Frohlich During the five months I was in the Congo, I lived on the compound of the Sacred Heart schools in Kinshasa. The school buildings, built in the early twentieth century by Belgian RSCJ, now house two high schools, three primary schools, and a two-year kindergarten – a total of 4500 students, mostly girls. During the Mobutu era, the Kinshasa...	droche
Barb Dawson In one of the worst drug/gang neighborhoods in Oakland, California, stands a school where positive energy abounds: a place of curiosity, discipline, growth, security, and faith. A place everyone loves to be. Named for a Peruvian saint who was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed black slave, St. Martin de Porres (SMDP) School...	droche
Sheila Smith Project Northern Outreach is a partnership between PACT-Ottawa (Persons Against the Crime of Trafficking in humans) and a core circle of twelve Ojibwe Nookmisak (Grandmothers) from Manitoulin Island and the north shore of Lake Superior. Head grandmother, Isabelle Meawasige, from Serpent River First Nation in Ontario, and I began to talk about a...	droche
Eleanor (El) MacLellan Growing up, Eleanor MacLellan, RSCJ, spent summers in a house on the ocean. Some of her earliest memories are of sitting on the front porch, marveling at the beauty of the sunlight sparkling on the waves, and sitting in the window seat of her bedroom at night, watching the moon cast its light over the water. Seventy years later, she recalls the...	droche
Sheila Hammond What was most critical to the work of Sheila Hammond, RSCJ, BCC (Board Certified Chaplain), and the team of healthcare professionals she managed was the human element of mutuality. As director of the Pastoral Care department at Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital and a certified Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) supervisor, Sister Hammond...	droche
Natalie Runfola Signs that proclaim “Welcome” abound at St. John’s/St. Ann’s Catholic Church; and the parish community stands whole-heartedly behind those words. This red brick church in Albany, New York’s South End is well known as a beacon of welcome to everyone: young, old, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight… and its parish membership is not based on...	droche
Jane O'Shaughnesy My relationship with God developed, as one’s does, through my personal and unique experience. During my Earth Mother phase, raising two little girls on 20 acres of land with wild blueberries, gardens and farm animals, my apple core went into the pile of aging horse manure to decompose, and then be turned back into the soil to feed the...	droche
Margo Morris According to Margo Morris, RSCJ, the real-world education at Sprout Creek Farm takes place on many levels. “It’s not just the science and the math,” she says. “People who come to Sprout Creek are able to really learn what life is all about, to look into the eyes of our fellow creatures, to spend time weeding and composting, and to reconnect...	droche
Judy Garson Staff members who weren’t already involved in the physical set-up of the special event took breaks from work to peer from windows at the bustle below. Would people turn out – enough to fill the space, wondered Judy Garson, RSCJ, executive director of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services, the agency putting on this street fair...	droche
Sara Kay Thompson When I arrived at Magnificat Houses (in Houston) ten years ago, I felt I knew all the answers. I was going to save the people of the community. It should not be so hard, I thought. I’d worked with the mentally ill and the homeless in Detroit. That work may not have been in transitional housing, but it was all the same. To me. Then. But that was...	droche
Susan (Susie) Maxwell Ask Susan Maxwell, RSCJ, what attracted her to Schools of the Sacred Heart in Chicago and she will tell you her enthusiasm derived not only from the school’s unique educational plan – single-sex schools for boys and girls on a single campus – but also from the school’s ethnically diverse surroundings near Lake Michigan on Chicago’s north side...	droche
Irma Dillard Irma Dillard, RSCJ, experiences hope in a broken world every single day. As an RSCJ who ministers to the poor, she is currently serving in two very different parishes: St. Boniface with the Franciscans in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, one of the most depressed, poor and crime ridden districts in the city; and Most Holy Redeemer Church...	droche
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hartson In the universe of IVC (Ignatian Volunteer Corps) agencies, Living Wages is one of its bright stars. Like the heavenly bodies, it can be judged by origins, by direction, by longevity and by brilliance. Living Wages started with the conviction of Sister Betsy Hartson and some Sacred Heart colleagues in 1998 that homelessness was an urban problem...	droche
Grace (Gracie) Butler Close to the time of Probation in the early seventies, a synod of Bishops said social justice is constitutive of the Gospel. When asked to make the best use of the six months after Probation, I asked to go to Sursum Corda where I was shaped by the importance of Eucharist, social justice and the magnificent religious with whom I lived . Sursum...	droche
Lolin Menendez A few years after Lolin's arrival in Karamoja, Uganda, in 1977, she was avidly reading every inch of The Tablet, the main source of information both religious and otherwise, as in the time of Idi Amin news of any kind was a rare commodity. This time her eyes- and her heart- were caught by an article describing the newly founded JRS by the then...	droche
Annette Zipple For more than forty years Annette Zipple, RSCJ has been an advocate for the poor and op-pressed people in southwest Detroit and has steadfastly given witness to the ministry of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in the City of Detroit. In 2005 Annette was the winner of the Wansboro Award, presented by the Sacred Heart Alumnae Association in...	droche